Yintao Yu, a former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in the US, claimed in a legal filing that a committee of Communist party members accessed TikTok data that included the users’ network information, Sim card identifications and IP addresses in a bid to identify the individuals and their locations. Yu also alleged in the filing that Beijing-based ByteDance maintained a “backdoor channel” for the party to access US user data.
OOFshoot ( @OofShoot@beehaw.org ) 14•1 year agoWhat? Nooooo. Not my Chinese Communist Party! Say it isn’t so!
CookieJarObserver ( @CookieJarObserver@feddit.de ) 13•1 year agoAnd who exactly thinks that wasn’t 100% predictable?
cavemeat ( @cavemeat@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year agoPeople who use tiktok
GhostMagician ( @GhostMagician@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year agoI would be shocked if social media from ________ country wasn’t accessing data from all the users that use the social media platform.
Essential7220 ( @Essential7220@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year agoIt is sad that (i) we are not surprised at all, and (ii) the whistleblowing changes nothing for the people on Hong Kong.
jeena ( @jeena@kbin.social ) 11•1 year agoWhistle blowing is necessary but not sufficient to bring change.
manifex ( @manifex@sh.itjust.works ) 2•1 year agoMoney or violence are the options for that.
Y’all, always use a good vpn for both data and wifi when protesting. Don’t use hotspots.
https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/m736zt/vpn_comparison_table/ alehel ( @alehel@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year agoIs a VPN going to help at all when the app sends their simID?
Don’t know, but additional precautions can be taken. i.e.: temporarily disable the app
balerion ( @balerion@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoOr better yet, just don’t bring your phone.