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ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8pi14 wrote

Reply to comment by Weird_Cantaloupe2757 in Pressure mounts for regulators to investigate TikTok over potential 'Big Brother-type surveillance' after reports of plans to track Americans' locations by Lahampsink

When the NSA spies on other nations: 👍

When other nations do the same: 😡😡😡

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Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu8q1qk wrote

Uhh... yeah? How else would that work? It's information warfare, so they need to hit the other guy, while also doing what they can to keep them from hitting us. I'm not sure what kind of point you are even trying to make here.

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whosthisguythinkheis t1_iuckult wrote

The point is that privacy should work FOR us if it is to work at all.

The fact that TikTok can do this type of surveillance shows that the US was happy to let it happen when they were in control of the info.

The US and it’s social media companies enabled this kind of exploitation in our phones and our tech infrastructure somehow completely blindsided to the fact that any other country to exploit it too.

Now they have and suddenly it’s a big deal.

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ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8utk1 wrote

We are at war?

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Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu8vf5w wrote

Not officially, but from the perspective of the intelligence agencies at least, we absolutely are. It is a much quieter type of war, but it's war nonetheless.

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benito_fusilloni t1_iubyzsd wrote

Well, you see, we’re using Ukrainians to fight our proxy war so we’re not actually having to get our hands dirty so we can claim innocence.

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