• Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    Yes and they don’t want foreign actors to have it…

    They really don’t mind the westernized countries having it. Hell they share it with other 5 Eyes countries. What they very much mind is adversary nations having it.

    You would think they would see this security vulnerability a decade ago

    The NSA was publicly warning about this in 2020 as part of the original “Ban TikTok” push. The DoD was working to limit location data on smartphones at least as far back as 2014 and they got the warning to do that from the NSA.