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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 120 points 7 months ago (4 children)

A true patriot supports local spyware!

[–] Bristle1744 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Please log my IP address. This is a house that loves Managed Democracy^tm^

[–] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Please log my IP address.

127.0.0.1

Checkmate. We're watching you.

[–] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

lol I started DDoSing this losers IP address, good op sec dumba

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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 61 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't discriminate. I say the data protection of all of these services is terrible and you shouldn't use them.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This forced sale of TikTok for national security is a farce because they were already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I have a geoIP alias on my firewall and can still see TikTok sending telemetry to a Chinese CDN.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

If so, then maybe the US “intelligence community” doesn’t actually see that as a problem, despite the cold war propaganda.

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[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter where the servers are located physically but who can access the data that's on them

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 29 points 7 months ago

They were physically relocated to the US so that the US can access the data, as people like Edward Snowden and Mark Klein have shown us. I’m sure the US knows precisely what data is and isn’t being sent to China.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 53 points 7 months ago (6 children)

23andMe is much, much worse than the others due to the nature of the data it sells.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Also, you don't actually need to share your own data to be vulnerable. Some stupid relative sharing their genetic information is enough to have some ideas about you. I'm fortunate that it's hasn't caught on in my home country.

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[–] makeasnek@lemmy.ml 40 points 7 months ago (9 children)

How come every thread I see about this topic, there is nobody who is concerned about letting the federal government dictate which apps you can and cannot use to communicate with other people? This is some 1984 shit.

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[–] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 39 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I would say make laws about data collection, usage, etc. instead of banning TikTok.

Heck, fix more important problems like income disparity, hunger, homelessness, healthcare, our wasteful spending, so many things more important and yet we're wasting time on TikTok.

I don't think people think this is a good use of time.

Seriously, it's government overreach and ignoring freedom of speech, etc.

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[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 30 points 7 months ago

"we will harvest your DNA and put a literal implant into your brain" melon-musk

so-true

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Spying on user data is a constitutional right of US companies, what are the poor going to live on when they can't traffic with your data, or when a disgusting red communist company steals their bread? A little more proper patriotism, guys. Bad enough that the EU is cutting the wings of this companies, therefore also don't use EU apps to make America great again.

[–] isthereanydeal@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] caveman@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Just install an alternative app Store like Aurora or install it directly from TikTok sites.

For open source projects, you can also use Obtainium or F-Droid

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Spottily is a Swedish company

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[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] twinnie@feddit.uk 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Gathering and selling your data.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So much data to infer from your music tastes. Listening to music about breakup? You had a breakup yourself. Listening to classical music? You're a top earner. Listening to Eminem? You like mom's spaghetti.

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