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TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe (www.wired.com)

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[–] bernieecclestoned 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While TikTok has spent significant time and effort building up staff in its operating countries to localize the app, ByteDance’s management remains in China. Although the company claims no identifying data travels to its headquarters in Beijing, there are concerns among China skeptics that the country’s telecoms and national security laws would mean it would have to snoop on users if asked

I mean, some tankie in another thread claims China is a communist country that controls all Chinese companies, can't have it both ways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's true. But if the politicians are unhappy if that situation, they should have written their law differently. TikTok complying with the law as written is legal

[–] bernieecclestoned 2 points 1 year ago

That's a data protection law from the EU. I suspect there's other security legislation at either EU or member state level that would preclude data being sent for spying purposes

[–] Ziggurat 2 points 1 year ago

Although the company claims no identifying data travels to its headquarters in Beijing, there are concerns among China skeptics that the country’s telecoms and national security laws would mean it would have to snoop on users if aske

Isn't that something pretty standard ? Like the same thing happen with facebook/google/Yandex or even reddit ? Technically even feddit.de would have to cooperate with German authority when asked.

I agree that you can trust the German government way more than China (and most likely way more than any other European government) but the issue of user data being used for massive espionage isn't a problem specific to Tik Tok.