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Zack WhittakerIt's absolutely insane to me that in this day and age a company would reject end-to-end encryption so that cops and feds can actively read people's messages. It also puts that same data at risk from hackers. But that's TikTok, under new U.S. ownership.
Henrik Hemrin@zackwhittaker As I read and understand, this is about both the new U.S.-TikTok as well as the rest-of-the-global-world-TikTok companies, not only the U.S. one. (the Chinese one is a third, separate, matter)
Carolyn@zackwhittaker TikTok is now owned by an American billionaire who is pals with the regime. Data gathering is their game. All that they said the Chinese were doing but worse. So this is just on point. They do NOT want to protect user data, users ARE the data.
Michael WestergaardTiktok is not under US ownership. Tiktok US is. This was an interview with Tiktok in London, so they are still under Chinese ownership.
wendythedruid@zackwhittaker That is utter and total bullshit. I moved all my short video content off onto our loops instance and peertube instances (https://loops.thistleandmoss.org / https://video.thistleandmoss.org ) for a reason. TikTok Running on Oracle infra is not something I can actively trust.
Saying they wont encrypt DMs, just furthers that belief.
Fuck you #LarryEllison.
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Won't change a thing if TikTok remains a Chinese owned app because that gov is against privacy, too.
There is no e2ee chat apps in China, either.
And the country's GFW is actively probing and blocking Matrix servers.
They already blocked Signal.
Won't change a thing if TikTok remains a Chinese owned app because that gov is against privacy, too.
There is no e2ee chat apps in China, either.
And the country's GFW is actively probing and blocking Matrix servers.
They already blocked Signal.