I don’t recall being warned away from facebook, google, etc. when it was revealed that all of the data they collect is accessible by the US government. China is supposed to be an adversary or whatever but the US has a much greater track record of meddling in affairs outside their borders…kinda feels like this is just ideology on display.
(Not a tiktok user, if it matters)
Yup, could’ve had a conversation about tech privacy from all angles, instead we got China Bad™ and nothing else. Also not a tiktok user.
Stick to domestic corporation spying please, Canadians.
I worked at a security firm that did check their code base.
One thing that was chilling was that it seemed that the source code was able to remotely execute arbitrary code.
It’s more than just stealing your tiktok data.
You’d think they would have led with that if that were the case.
Feel free to make your own research. I will never in a million years install TikTok or any of their related applications on any of my systems. It’s just… untrustworthy.
Our governments barely understand tech and the average user would not know what arbitrary code execution is. If I said to my wife you should remove tiktok because of ACE she would stare blankly and say but I like the funny people. if I said you should remove tiktok because of spying, then she would think about what they might spy on and have some concern
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In some of his most hawkish comments to date, the head of Canada’s intelligence agency is warning Canadians — including teenagers — against using the wildly popular video app TikTok.
His comments come a week after CSIS released an annual report which warned about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s growing extraterritorial reach.
Vigneault is just the latest Western official to raise concerns about TikTok putting sensitive user data in the hands of the Chinese government.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is also accused of helping to build China’s system for cracking down on the Uyghur minority, and of targeting protesters in Hong Kong.
Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that gives TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, one year to sell the app to avoid a ban.
A spokesperson for Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said in March that the government could take action “if a case under review is found to be injurious to Canada’s national security.”
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I really feel like this is only being pushed because TikTok has been instrumental in organizing protests.
O noes CCP knows I like silly dances
On top of knowing who you are, where you are, whether you’re single or married, whether or not you have children, where you work, when you work, what your interests are, what your embarrassing interests are, etc. etc. etc.
People are weirdly blase about this but, if you use TikTok regularly, they have such a wealth of information about you that an intelligence agency would find it trivial to compromise you. You’re just gambling that you’re not worth compromising.
Also, an insane amount of video surveillance from millions of phones.
