CBP is interrogating TikTok employees

Some workers at TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, have been pulled aside by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and held for additional questioning, according to the report. Many of the workers who have been singled out are Chinese nationals.

TikTok employees have been asked whether they are members of the Chinese Communist Party

#TikTok #ByteDance #socialmedia #ProjectTexas #CBP #travel #technology #tech

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145489/tiktok-employees-interrogated-customs-border-protection

Customs and Border Protection is interrogating TikTok employees at airports

Workers have been asked about their involvement with Project Texas, a massive effort to protect US users’ data from ByteDance employees in China.

The Verge
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Report: ByteDance still has access to US users’ TikTok data despite Project Texas

Several former employees said they reported to and had regular meetings with China-based ByteDance executives.

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@samyd0rsey @zackwhittaker

#ProjectTexas is so misunderstood as a communist plot, peak irony alert /$ 🤦🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♂️⚠️

@benroyce @servelan

#ProjectTexas ✍️📰👀👀

What is Project Texas? | TikTok

Project Texas is an unprecedented initiative dedicated to making every American on TikTok feel safe, with confidence that their data is secure and the platform is free from outside influence.…

TikTok

@marshray @mozz @flexghost @maynarkh @eljefedsecurit

Let's take your arguments and break them down a bit...

You mentioned, first, " The threat it poses:

"1 The Chinese government treats communication networks as their personal hoovering-attachment for any data they might want. "

In Texas? Huh. Are you sure your communist plot isn't being monitored? You DO know that US has its own intelligence apparatus, right?

"Companies are required by law to operate as an arm of Chinese intelligence, both in terms of giving information and in terms of manipulating what information people on their network are allowed to see."

Again, this sounds like you have ZERO knowledge of 'ProjectTexas', which I have left you links to... in this thread.

"It's not just your TikTok data. It's photos and files on your phone, your contacts, your messages, basically anything that the app with its too-permissive permissions can get its hands on, can potentially go up to Chinese intelligence."

So, like #Meta's overreach permission wise like their new #Threads app? Huh.

"TikTok is not structured like any other app. It has features like custom-downloading and running arbitrary binaries from its central server that honestly don't even make much sense except as spying apparatus (consistent with #1)."

Not true. This is very similar to #Meta apps in the way they are structured. Did you know you ARE describing qualities of #GammaGroup and other #malware & #spyware #MITM type behaviors, though? 🤔 Hmm.

"What China might do with this unprecedented level of access to everyone's phones is malevolent in a different way than, say, Facebook's access to everyone's data."

So the #ProjectTexas with #OracleSystems IN #OracleCloud is... A communist plot? 😂 DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO FOUNDED ORACLE?!?!?! 😂😂😂😂

"Like Facebook they have the ability to e.g. influence an election, but they also have the ability to try to blackmail an individual to compromise them, or do for-real torture in the real world (say by tracking down a dissident via TikTok spying and then having one of their little Chinese-police-in-America units grab them)."

LIKE FACEBOOK.
😂😂😂😂 1:1 😂😂😂😂

OMG YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND #PROJECTTEXAS! 😂

You must of missed the whole Taylor
L. story on this? Huh.

I'LL continue... 😂

Obviously you have met some cat that pushed some stuff off the side of the pond you are on then?

Weird flex that your go to is Flat Earthers to support your side. I'm glad I have time for you to read and catch up a bit though. So you want a different source? Cool. Here is a go:

This one made me laugh:
https://www.cio.com/article/405380/metaverse-the-time-for-cios-to-experiment-is-now.html

Also this : Dumb FSCKs! 😂 You trust someone who gets paid $1. A. YEAR! 👎😂😂😂😂👎
https://ciowomenmagazine.com/meta-introduces-privacy-setting/

Rebranding Fails, from Harvard, Marks alma! 😂
https://hbr.org/2021/11/facebooks-rebrand-has-a-fundamental-problem

The Brand is Toxic : Meta, a Case Study : Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-rebrand-damaged-reputation-study-finds-2021-11?op=1

The Verdict . Co. UK : https://www.verdict.co.uk/meta-failed-rebrand/

Perhaps your argument of attacking TikTok and saying 'this is worse than Meta's, as I tried to keep simple, for obvious reasons, that your arguments are just supporting my same criticism of Meta, a known fraud company, known for propaganda, who has since 2019 DELETED 8 BILLION ACCOUNTS, YEARLY. That's 2+ BILLION per quarter. Fraud Issues. Leadership Issues. 💯✅

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I could go on and on and on and on.... But I'll stop here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIOs have been revamping legacy IT stacks to prep the enterprise for innovation, but too few see the transformative potential the metaverse offers. Those who pilot early will be poised for payoff.

CIO

@mozz @flexghost @maynarkh @eljefedsecurit @marshray

You missed the simple point of same vs. same , i.e. - 1:1, e.g. - mirror vs. mirror so your use of 'very-bad' seems.. perfect as an analogy that is just supporting my points. Cheers 🥂 for that Cesar Thumbs Up 👍 for my message.

You know you could just edit this so as to not have to keep replying, right? ┐( ˘_˘)┌

Because you don't seem to _know_ a whole lot about Meta it seems not its history of... Well.. how about, as you requested in the thread above, catch UP to an industry trade coverage wise in I.T. with this linky here then circle back when you have finished reading the 1000's of articles I have already read?

Checking your English seems to be UK based, yeah? Would you like me to localize the damage that Meta has done to your specific country or USA or perhaps another region? Ireland perhaps? 🤔

#Brexit? #cambridgeanalytica ?

#Facebook M8! (Soon, #MarkXit !)

Cool. Catch-up. Tomato 🍅?

That's the sauce. 😂

Here ! ╮(^▽^)╭🔗
👇
https://search.theregister.com/?q=Facebook

https://search.theregister.com/?q=Meta

Then you can quote post along with what I have ALREADY read and LIVED also so... Cool? 👍🔗

Are you in ShoreDitch? I'm in Silicon Valley! Nice. 👍

So, How's that #ProjectTexas going, again?

¹ https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/project-texas-tiktok-plan-stay-america-oracle-security/

² https://mashable.com/article/project-texas-tiktok

³ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-project-texas-bytedance-user-data

https://www.zdnet.com/article/tiktok-ceo-updates-on-project-texas-says-us-user-data-will-be-in-oracles-hands-soon/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-16/tiktok-ceo-says-project-texas-to-address-us-security-concerns

'I'm from Singapore, Senator."

How's the Project Texas going?
Can you share.co .UK? Did you know that it's an #OracleSystems hosting project with 'oversights'? Hmm... 🤔🔗

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@mozz @flexghost @maynarkh

I'll say it again. Same. 1:1. Arguments.

Change the company name above to Meta in your arguments.

Same. Arguments. ☑️✅✔️

Meta is a #malware company masquerading as a Banner AD company. No more. Definitely Less due to Leadership issues.

TikTok is run by a former Facebook Intern who is now CEO.

So how's that project going again, Oracle Systems? What was that project name to localize this in TX data centers for TikTok? ✔️🦉📰🗞️

(Edit: #ProjectTexas, by #OracleSystems, a former client, on #OracleCloud !) 😂

This: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/ticktok-transparency-center-opens/

TikTok launches charm offensive amid calls to ban the app

It's part of an effort to mount a public relations campaign to counter claims the app is a threat to U.S. national security.

The Washington Post