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If all my data is for sale and China can just buy all my data from Meta, Amazon, Google, etc. Then why not just skip the middleman? At least if I give my data directly to the CCP, Zuckerberg won't have access to it.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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FBI: "Be careful what Apps you use because they are all collecting data on you" "Cover your Webcam, it is probably hacked" "Turn off location on your phone, because that's being hacked" "All of our phones are being spied on by China from a back door via the telco infrastructure that the Government refuses to correct, because they want to spy to"
Congress: "Tiktok is the biggest problem"
If everything is compromised why can't I buy one of those far superior Huawei phones?
Probably a similar reason to why Meta spent more money lobbying in history for the Tiktok ban.
In general those companies don't sell data.
It's not in their best interest to sell data when they could instead sell ads using your data.
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I think the Chinese hackers inside american isp's hardware etc are a way bigger risk...
Given they just use backdoors put in in order to allow warrantless surveillance by the NSA and FBI, they're not a threat.
Yeah, obviously, but the US isn't going to implement privacy laws because that would impact American tech corporations as well, who also do mass data collection.
Which means they've legislated themselves into a game of whack a mole. Without true regulations all they can do is wait for the next mole to pop up.
Incoming: all apps offered on the appstore must be whitelisted and approved by the DOGE. If a social media apps is not approved they can sell themselves within 24h to Musk in order to get apprlval.
Oh nooooooooo
If they ban rednote I am dropshipping my data directly to Xi
I thought that was kind of the point... people started using red note because it was openly what the government fears Tictoc could be as a form of protest.
What's next a news story that says people printing out their browser history and dropping it off at the chinese embassies, might be giving their private data to china?
If that's true then people are more stupid than i thought
Oh they are. Albert Einstein: Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, but I'm not quite sure about the universe yet.
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No shit
Someone: and they just hand over their SSN to you?
Zuckerberg: Stupid fucks
I doubt the Chinese are going to sell our information to insurance companies to raise our rates like every company in America
Boo hoo! The US can't spy on it's people anymore because everyone got wise and switched to foriegn apps.
This has nothing to do with the security or privacy of the people. They're pissed because they're losing power over them.
On a side note, everyone that has joined REDnote is waking up to the lifetime of propaganda the american government has been feeding them. This past week has been wild.
I just learned from red note that Chinese people don't pay property taxes. Once they pay off their mortgage, they just own their home. I'm definitely the one living in a third world country.
there’s genuinely been some class consciousness getting into play
i saw some users from both countries compare prices of eggs and vegetables, and they even did the necessary math of accounting for average wage and cost of living. the chinese users are not allowed to talk about their politics (sadly; this is a bad thing) but they are allowed to talk about foreign politics and they are probably bigger fans of Luigi Mangione even than i have seen in English speaking social media. there are candid discussions of queerphobia as well in its different social (and for the US, political too) manifestations between countries.
The funny thing is at any point the US government can ban the collection of personal user data. It could just be illegal for any company to do this in the US.
But like you said, it's just about the US wanting to spy on its own citizens but not wanting other countries to.
Look at the companies with the highest market cap in the US and just start counting how many make money from selling personal data. The US will never implement wide sweeping privacy laws. To the detriment of everyone.
“it’s okay when we do it” —the US on literally everything it criticizes in other nations
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Yeah. A ""security risk"" of all us fucking slaves realizing what a raw deal we've got.
Doh
Just doh
Security risks, like interacting with Chinese people and undoing decades of our propaganda
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The US government’s position on this can be summed up as “massive unaccountable US tech firms having all of your data and manipulating public opinion via their black box algorithms is okay, but Chinese companies doing that is a national security concern”. I call BS. The degree to which China is actually a US adversary is being massively overstated by the US government as they see this as a threat to US geopolitical hegemony and America’s ability to propagandize its own citizens. I have spent some time on RedNote (Xiaohongshu) and all I have seen is friendly cross-cultural exchange and discussion between these supposed ‘adversaries’.
I want to take it even further down, what effect does China harvesting my data have? I'm a poor white man working in a school in the Midwest with extreme left beliefs. I'm not privy to government Intel, I don't when go to school board meetings. All I watch is redstone tutorials and goblin-core videos. I'm not saying I'm a default demographic, but if you take the entire digital footprint of everyone I know, you're getting terrabytes of wasted space. You can't even use it to radicalize us because we use it for escapism, not news. Not that that's an option, I'd happy sell out this shithole for a stable job and dental, but I don't see China sending me any pizza parties.
US propaganda has been focused on telling people nonstpp how Muslims and Chinese are all just busy hating the US because of their "muuh freedom" and their greatest whishes is to take that "freedom" away. Also they are all underdeveloped peasants according to the propaganda.
The greatest danger to that propaganda model is normal people talking with each other and realizing people are just people with people problems. Doesn't matter where in the world you are. The average person will worry about paying their bills, their work, the health of their family and how their kids do in school.
People in warzones care about staying alive and overcoming their attackers, but even then most people who have been at the end of American barrels or barrels allied to the US just want to be left the fuck alone in their own countries. Very few actually want to destroy the US, despite having their family members murdered by the US or its Allies. (Same goes for people dealing with Russian, French or other foreign military attacks)
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Remember that time that China bombed a US ship in the Mediterranean though, to try to trick us into a war with Egypt?
Wait, that was "Israel".
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It is almost as though TiK Tok's data collection was a symptom of unregulated data collection. If only there was some way to reduce the amount of data companies were allowed to collect. Oh well I guess we can just ban this one as well.
excellent to know so we are going to make and enforce privacy regulations so this pattern doesn’t keep repeating itself
… right?
It has Israeli investors so any pro-palestine content won't last long!
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Someone go make green note, blue note, yellow note, all the notes!!!!
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