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.”
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.
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.