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.
whosthisguythinkheis t1_iuckult 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
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.