EKUAg said:

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A little more open of the Dem/China connection.

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Absolutely shocked! Never could have seen that coming!

So tired of their obvious anti-Americanism. And trying to point out how anti-America they are to any moderate will only get you 5 different versions of "you're overreacting"

Soulless people that will do anything for wealth and power. Typical patrician Democrat types.

FYI - I don't tiktok, or whatever the hell you call it, but #tiktokdown is trending on twitter...

270k is chump change in lobbying. Amateurs.

Cut off all chinese companies

Tik tok is super popular with high school kids.

But, if someone spelled out to them how bad the data abuse on the app was in plain language, and what China might be doing with it, this support is going to backfire big time.

TikTok is a major infiltration weapon....

BusterAg said:

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Tik tok is super popular with high school kids.

But, if someone spelled out to them how bad the data abuse on the app was in plain language, and what China might be doing with it, this support is going to backfire big time.

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Care to try and explain ?

Here's a link: https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Things it seems it does:

1) Ping your GPS periodically
2) keep track of all the cookies on your web browsers
3) Keep track of all the hardware id's your user uses to access the site
4) Keeps track of all the apps you install and uninstall
5) Keeps track of all networks stuff it can get, including IP address, Wi-Fi router MAC, device MAC, etc
6) Tries hard to hide all of the data it is collecting and sending to their servers in chi-nah
7) Measures your user activity, based on what you swipe and what you don't.

In all, it is public spyware in the guise of a video streaming service. Imagine if Twitter, Facebook and Google were all owned by the Chinese government. Because it collects more information about you than all three of these combined.

What good does that do? All speculation, but if I was an evil dictator with this type of information:

1) It helps them with their foreign policy around U.S. How do we get them to panic and crush their economy? I know... MASKS!
2) It helps them identify government workers, and who they work for. If you have an App installed that logs into a US government intranet or sends email through a US government email server, they will know, and they can target you for better information.
3) It helps them identify targets for corporate espionage. Same concept as #2, but if you are logging into a Lockheed intranet on your phone, guess who just became interesting to the Tik Tok guys?
4) It helps them identify where high-value targets physically go, shop, log into weakly protected or unsecured Wi-Fi so that for the really high value targets, you can sit and sniff.

There is a reason why US government employees cannot have it on their phone. And it's not due to trade war stuff.

Sine poena nulla lex.

The Chinese are probably funneling that information back to the DNC.

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Aggie95 said:

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BusterAg said:

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Tik tok is super popular with high school kids.

But, if someone spelled out to them how bad the data abuse on the app was in plain language, and what China might be doing with it, this support is going to backfire big time.

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Care to try and explain ?

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Wow. Read his entire thread on this, very eye-opening.

High tech companies are requiring you to remove the app from your personal phone if you get company email or use company messaging systems. You don't even need to connect to the company network for email. This must be really dangerous if high tech is afraid of China now.

GET TIKTOK OFF YOUR DEVICES !!!!

Amazon is first to make the news...more coming

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-bans-tiktok-employees-phones-citing-security-risks/