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partiallypro ◴[] No.21574275[source]
My only concern with TikTok is data collection being funneled to the CCP.
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progval ◴[] No.21574444[source]
Unlike Facebook, which is data collection being funneled to Western companies and US agencies.
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partiallypro ◴[] No.21575816[source]
The US isn't using that data to put Muslims into concentration camps and killing them to take their organs, or marching troops into Hong Kong.
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1. throw964563 ◴[] No.21576859{3}[source]
I wouldn’t be so sure,

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...