Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.

Starting today, apps made by state and federal governments are getting a new government badge to help users better identify official apps.

The badge will first appear on over 3,000 apps for 12 different countries.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    261·
    7 months ago

    Apparently TikTok has said they would actually prefer to shutdown US operations rather than sell.

    It would be hilarious to imagine a government run tiktok.

    Oh my job? I scroll TikTok all day looking for morons posting crimes they do online and tagging them to be forwarded to local police departments.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      14·
      7 months ago

      Oh my job? I scroll TikTok all day looking for morons posting crimes they do online and tagging them to be forwarded to local police departments.

      I have no doubt that some police departments actually do this. You can gather a lot of intelligence from public posts by people that aren’t very intelligent.

      I’ve seen policy bodycam videos on YouTube where the police knew where to find a criminal with a warrant because they were on TikTok or a similar site, bragging about some crime they committed, and tagged the location.

    • dev_nullEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      The “joke” was that TikTok is ran by the Chinese government.