Teen Mental Health App Sent Kid’s Data Straight to (cue red menace) TikTok
Ahem…
was leaking data about who visited the website to TikTok, Meta, Snap, and other social media companies
I’m no Sinophobe, I do think there’s a point to be made about social media data harvesting and mainlining it to ANY government, and that the CCP is definitely not a government I would trust with open access to all my digital doings. That headline is patently fucking ridiculous click-bait fear mongering, there’s numerous US politicians on record saying that privacy concerns have nothing to do with their torch and pitchfork agenda re:TikTok, and the line I quoted above is in the first 1-3 paragraphs. The reality is that corporate/government owned social media has only a few uses:
mass collection of data for surveillance, profiling individuals for profit or
as the ProPublica piece on the NSSF and Cambridge Analytics VoteGun operation highlights, manipulation of people through profiling to push political agendas and tamper with elections
I’ll edit this with a link to the article in a few minutes.
Ahem…
I’m no Sinophobe, I do think there’s a point to be made about social media data harvesting and mainlining it to ANY government, and that the CCP is definitely not a government I would trust with open access to all my digital doings. That headline is patently fucking ridiculous click-bait fear mongering, there’s numerous US politicians on record saying that privacy concerns have nothing to do with their torch and pitchfork agenda re:TikTok, and the line I quoted above is in the first 1-3 paragraphs. The reality is that corporate/government owned social media has only a few uses:
I’ll edit this with a link to the article in a few minutes.
Edit: https://www.propublica.org/article/guns-lobbying-cambridge-analytica-nssf-privacy-elections