TikTok crackdown gathers steam in US

[Bradley Prior]

TikTok crackdown gathers steam in US

Senators in both US political parties Thursday pressed for more action by the Biden administration to address national security concerns raised by widespread use of TikTok a day after voting to ban the video-sharing app on government phones. [Bloomberg]

 

[Synaesthesia]

But how is tiktok gonna exfiltrate my data on iOS or Android where apps are sandboxed?

 

[capd]

It should also be banned for dumbing down children.

 

[borro]

 

[Pegasus]

TikTok crackdown gathers steam in US

Senators in both US political parties Thursday pressed for more action by the Biden administration to address national security concerns raised by widespread use of TikTok a day after voting to ban the video-sharing app on government phones. [Bloomberg]

Youtube already have “shorts”, so clear that they will be banned.

 

[JuliusSeizure]

Cancel Culture.

 

[ConfusedR]

But how is tiktok gonna exfiltrate my data on iOS or Android where apps are sandboxed?

Read the terms and conditions that you so gladly ignore when you sign-up to these apps

 

[system32]

Pentagon awards multibillion-dollar Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Does that make Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle militry contractors and should countries be wary of the US-DoD influence on them?

No. We should worry about TikTok and Huawei.

 

[Petec]

YouTube shorts must be covering themselves in baby oil.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Read the terms and conditions that you so gladly ignore when you sign-up to these apps

And what’s that got to do with his point?

 

[BlackStatic]

Pentagon awards multibillion-dollar Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Does that make Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle militry contractors and should countries be wary of the US-DoD influence on them?

No. We should worry about TikTok and Huawei.

They've all done military contracting for years now. You're welcome to read up on all the exploits, you can even discuss it online, that's the critical difference, you won't get thrown in jail or some deathcamp alongside Uyghurs for reading and discussing about what military stuff Google has been up to like your tjommies in China will do to you.

 

[system32]

They've all done military contracting for years now. You're welcome to read up on all the exploits, you can even discuss it online, that's the critical difference, you won't get thrown in jail or some deathcamp alongside Uyghurs for reading and discussing about what military stuff Google has been up to like your tjommies in China will do to you.

Deathcamps like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib?

Just to be clear, you fine with "don't be evil" Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle being tarnished by association with DoD famous for atrocities in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, WMD invasion or Iraq, covert operations like Barrel Roll where 260 million bombs were dropped on innocent Laos...

 

[ConfusedR]

And what’s that got to do with his point?

It has got hugely to do with his point.
When you read the terms and conditions, you agree to what data the app will take from you whether the app is "sandboxed" or not.

 

[SauRoNZA]

It has got hugely to do with his point.
When you read the terms and conditions, you agree to what data the app will take from you whether the app is "sandboxed" or not.

But the very nature of it being sandboxed means it doesn’t get access to very much and can’t interact with other apps.

T&C’s are nice, but means nothing if there is a great big bloody wall in the way.

 

[Speedster]

Deathcamps like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib?

Just to be clear, you fine with "don't be evil" Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle being tarnished by association with DoD famous for atrocities in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, WMD invasion or Iraq, covert operations like Barrel Roll where 260 million bombs were dropped on innocent Laos...

https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/index.php?threads/1216787/

 

[ConfusedR]

But the very nature of it being sandboxed means it doesn’t get access to very much and can’t interact with other apps.

T&C’s are nice, but means nothing if there is a great big bloody wall in the way.

Good luck getting it to run in a true "sandboxed" environment with all full features enabled.
Even Windows's terms and conditions states, that Microsoft will gather some of your data. Wehther you like it or not. You can switch as many of the privacy settings off. Some the data will still be sent to Microsoft.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Good luck getting it to run in a true "sandboxed" environment with all full features enabled.
Even Windows's terms and conditions states, that Microsoft will gather some of your data. Wehther you like it or not. You can switch as many of the privacy settings off. Some the data will still be sent to Microsoft.

We aren’t talking about Microsoft though.

Besides the fact they have access to completely different sets of data than an app running on a phone.

Apps run in fully sandboxed environments every day with full features. It’s a thing.

 

[Mekon]

One would think that they would be banning it because it's making stupid people stupider. 90% garbage content.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

It should also be banned for dumbing down children.

So, you're a superuser then?

 

[capd]

So, you're a superuser then?

Totally!