Justin Trudeau warnt die Kanadier, auf ihren Top-Spion zu hören: „Ich würde auf keinen Fall jemandem empfehlen, TikTok zu haben“ – David Vigneault, Direktor des Canadian Security Intelligence Service, behauptet, die App sammle persönliche Daten der Benutzer, die dem autoritären Regime, das regiert, zur Verfügung stehen China
https://www.thestar.com/politics/justin-trudeau-warns-canadians-to-listen-to-our-top-spy-i-would-absolutely-not-recommend/article_601baf56-146f-11ef-881b-139eab7e21af.html
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If you know this for a fact, why allow TikTok to operate in the country?
How does it compare with the likes of meta or google?
What apps and websites we go to *don’t collect* our personal data?
Even if we avoid the internet entirely our data probably still gets leaked in another Equifax data breach or some BS out of our control. Most of us just assume our personal data is being collected all the time and don’t worry about it because what can we do anyways?
Ban tikTok completely.
It was literally designed to ruin kids attention spans and ability to concentrate and learn.
Ban TikTok.
Isn’t Tik tok content deeply censored in China?
I only want good and wholesome western corporations to collect and sell my data! It’s been awhile since we have brought democracy abroad, time for Raytheon to drop an app!
I don’t think collection of data is the primary concern of tik-tok. Apps are sandboxed, apps that violate those sandboxes get delisted by google/apple for terms of use violations.
Sure they collect data on your viewing habits/interests, which isn’t great but is primarily for marketing. Maybe they have location data too, if you granted that.
The real problem (imo) is the algorithm. This goes for all social media, but it’s choosing what channel you watch next, there is a lot of power to sway influence in that ability, if one was to choose. It invites tailored propaganda, and thanks to all the user-generated content, propaganda is as simple as choosing from millions of videos that are aligned with the goals of the propagandist.
I will admit. I find annoying how much Tik Tok pushes political content on me. I usually block political users and immediately skip political videos. But Tik Tok keeps trying to give it.
I’ll just find another app at this point
Every app and website collects data. Google Home and Alexa collects data and listens to conversations even when the microphones are off. It’s so stupid. TikTok is no different than anything else.
# “I would absolutely not recommend someone have Justin Trudeau as a PM”
Fixed!
As opposed to the oligarchs of our North American governments. I’m not convinced.
Ah yes our brave leader raising awareness for some of Canada to hear, about the vile dangers that he has no intention of remediating in any capacity.
First it was the “non-answer” bullshit, now its the active non-action bolstering the non-answer of wavering concern for those he has no concern for.
Idiocy was a comedy movie, seems like our show runners have adapted it to a gritty film noir of absurdity.
Points at Five Eyes.
Well the biggest threat is the almighty algorithm, it looks at what kind of content you engage with, and in response it will serve you similar content in order to keep you engaged.
The next thing to consider is what content is typically served to the western market, and what content is served in China itself.
Then we must ask if the content served in the West and China is different, how different is it, and does the entity that controls the app have the ability to alter the algorithm to make certain trends more popular which can then encourage other users/citizens to engage with said content in order to gain influence over the West?
Or if China is served different content are they leaving the west’s algorithm to do it’s own thing, and instead only manipulating their own to encourage more interest in technology, science etc rather than silly dances?
Or maybe they manipulate both? But just in different ways.
The great power isn’t strength, nor knowledge, it’s influence. There is no point in having strength if you can be manipulated into using it against another, no point in knowledge if you are afraid to use that knowledge due to the aforementioned manipulated stronger members of society, but if you have influence then the strong and knowledgeable become the toys that you play the game with. So we should always be wary of both regimes, but especially the already more authoritarian and highly influential regime(over it’s own people) because it isn’t them that fight in their game, they just call the moves, and everyone else follows.
Was it Viber or WhatsApp that was made by a ex Mossad spy?
So the same thing Facebook let Cambridge Analítica do?
Just remember: Taiwan is the Republic of China, and they used to control all of China.
“But don’t worry when we collect your data illegally, we’re not an authoritarian regime 😉”.
What is this jingo bullshit?
Serious question. I’m an average person. Nothing nefarious going on. Why do I care what they harvest from my searches (tbh i don’t use TikTok. There may be something i do t know). I do t answer calls from unknown numbers. I don’t respond to texts to “the wrong number”. I don’t click in any links in emails. Why do i care that they know i need a new sprinkler.
They keep saying this but never say why. I hate that they just expect us to believe them with no real reasoning as to why TikTok is any worse than any other social media platform.
This is the downloaded app version?
Why can’t the top intelligence expert tell us EXACTLY what data it steals. “Personal data” means fck all to people in 2024.
I’m confident that it does “spy” on us but everyone keeps speaking in vague terms.
Headline should be. Canada uses American spy agencies to spy on Canadian citizens.
but Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, are nice and you can trust them
People need to internalize this one simple fact: No company is ever allowed to be successful in China without the government being intimately involved in that company’s most inner workings. That rules out all Chinese tech and software companies.