With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message.
The revised document details the U.S. joint venture’s conditions for using its service, including the specific location information it may collect.
Many users are also posting to social media about language found in the policy, which says that TikTok could collect sensitive information about its users, including their “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status.”
Expected ounce the sale went through.
Anyone who uses tiktok is kind of an idiot to be honest, and it’s kind of amusing that they’re shocked that this would happen. Wtf did you expect?
So we the Fediverse made an alternative because it seemed Tik Tok would be gone now we are going to find ourselves pushing the same alternative because Tik Tok is a privacy nightmare (I mean it already was but this seems worse.)
Just don’t do it
Now THAT is spyware!
That is insane
lol
It’s really interesting to read another society’s propaganda, and clarifies how much we are affected by western propaganda we’ve been subjected to our whole lives.
A rule of journalism: Unless it’s meant literally, when a news headline includes words like blasts, blisters, bombshell, burns, claps back, drags, epic self-own, explodes, freaks out, goes viral, humbled, humiliated, melts down, mind-blowing, rages, rips, roasts, shocking, skewers, slams, staggering, stuns, or trolls, find a better source.
Lemmy user blasts news source and humiliates editor over viral headline.
Absolutely slammed it.
Thank you, I get so tired of the blasts rips shreds ragebait headlines
“(SUBJECT) RIPS AND TEARS, UNTIL IT IS DONE.”
Thank you. Once my eyes hit a word like that I don’t even continue reading. It’s a major reason I left reddit, because they barely have any non-baiting news anymore.
Yeah, remember when Trump “saved” Tiktok? This is what he was doing. You fucking idiots celebrated when you should have been taking it as a sign to leave that app and never return.
All the corporate controlled social media is complicit, including Meta and obviously X. They make it so easy and entertaining, just like Fux News. There are much less invasive alternatives like Mastodon but people are lazy/stupid.
It does seem like a Leopards Ate My Face situation
Do you really think the same people most affected by this were the ones celebrating
In part, yes.
Well in part, humanity is nazis…
Every situation since 2016 has been one of those.
Honestly, TikTok was corrupt and malicious from the moment its servers in beijing went online.
Something tells me the royal “you” you’re mad at isn’t on the fediverse
Please remember thia name. Larry Ellison. He’s the biggest boogyman most people aren’t even aware is there.
The good news is that everything Larry Ellison touches dies slowly and painfully. Oracle’s touch of death is well known in the tech community… Java, MySQL, etc.
Oracle = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
He’s quite bad. Peter Thiel is worse imo.
The fact you think that kind of proves my point.
(I don’t mean that in a snarky way. )
I’m trying but there’s so many fucking evil names 😞
The app developed and operated by an authoritarian military psyops is collecting data and promoting authoritarianism?!
No way!
/s
This change happened after it was acquired by Ellison. He was not involved in its development
The CCP was tracking all the same information before the US’s involvement.
The portion for collecting “sexual orientation, status as transgender or non binary, citizenship or immigration status” is under a section called, “information you provide” which means that it’s only collected if the user provides the information.
Yeah five bucks says if your watch history is exclusively LGBT related content that’s going to tip people off
Do you have to provide it explicitly, or is the algorithm inferring it from all of your habits (which you “provide” in the form of clicks and views)?
TikTok has been proven to collect phone number, contacts, photo library, and text messages from you without permission and send it to a server in Beijing on a chinese military base.
They don’t give a fuck about your consent, never have.
no that’s not what that means at all.
My decision to stick with rednote after the first wave of bullshit has been vindicated.
If privacy was your concern then join Loop. That one is Fediverse certified
You’re worried about privacy, and your answer is Rednote?
Some people just can’t be helped I guess
I am worried about privacy from the US government. I do not care what the chinese government knows about me because I am not Chinese.
The Chinese voluntarily supplied the TikTok data to the US Government. They also used the app to promote Donald Trump’s second term to start with.
The servers might be moving locations soon but its still accessed and maintained by chinese military in Beijing.
You should care. It is affecting you.
They moved the servers for US version of TikTok to the US, appointed a bunch of state department ghouls, and eventually sold it to a US company to comply with US regulations and avoid simply getting banned. Rednote is entirely chinese and has no such requirements.
The servers might be moving locations soon but its still accessed and maintained by chinese military in Beijing.
Tf is the chinese military going to do with a my data? Ask me to stop sending unhinged furry memes to my chinese friends?
You know the CCP runs secret police operations in sovereign countries around the world, where they try to apply Chinese laws to residents of other countries outside of China, right?
They focus mainly on the Chinese diaspora, because they think they own them, but it’s not unthinkable that they might target anyone else if it advances their interests.
If you can’t figure out the myriad of ways the Chinese military can exploit the use of your data to your detriment, then you don’t really have any reason to be concerned if only because you can’t figure out why you should be concerned in the first place.
Eben Byers didn’t think he had any reason to be concerned, but that didn’t stop him from getting killed five years later.
Is rednote still a thing? What’s it like now?
Not too different than before, its less chaotic, the moderation situation improved, you don’t see cryptonazi shit while other users get randomly punished for completely innocuous content like when US users first flooded in.
