The narrative that Chinese companies are a privacy/security concern is a way to divert attention from US based companies doing the same and worse. The implicit claim there is that TikTok is somehow an outlier as opposed to being the norm.
While obviously I’d prefer not to be spied on by anybody, it’s clearly worse to be spied on by a government that has agency over you as opposed to one that doesn’t. If I was a dissident in US today I’d feel far safer with a Huawei phone than one from a US affiliated company.
Right, obviously the fact that TikTok is quietly monitoring the users without them being aware of it is a problem since you have no idea where that data ends up eventually or what it’s being used for. It’s just funny that it’s being singled out for doing that while US/EU pretend that Western apps are somehow different in that regard.
The narrative that Chinese companies are a privacy/security concern is a way to divert attention from US based companies doing the same and worse. The implicit claim there is that TikTok is somehow an outlier as opposed to being the norm.
While obviously I’d prefer not to be spied on by anybody, it’s clearly worse to be spied on by a government that has agency over you as opposed to one that doesn’t. If I was a dissident in US today I’d feel far safer with a Huawei phone than one from a US affiliated company.
Literally me, but a Xiaomi phone with google apps disabled.
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Right, obviously the fact that TikTok is quietly monitoring the users without them being aware of it is a problem since you have no idea where that data ends up eventually or what it’s being used for. It’s just funny that it’s being singled out for doing that while US/EU pretend that Western apps are somehow different in that regard.