Anyone or any country spying on an American or several Americans are planning to do them harm. China is probably working for Trump and/or Putin, same thing really.
Remember when the Patriot Act went into effect. No one had a good night's sleep for at least a year. Currently, Edward Snowden is out of reach of the Free World because he decided to stay in Russia when his downloads to Wikileaks made front page news. I find Edward a bit of a hypocrite. He lives in Russia and advocates Online Rights. Sure. Does that make sense to anyone?
At any rate, just because Americans like to ham it up on TicToc is no reason to turn one's back privacy and security of personal data. CHINA IS SPYING ON AMERICANS FOR A REASON.
GET A BLOG ON GOOGLE INSTEAD!
Make videos and get a following on YouTube.
Vanquish Chinese spying on Americans!
By Emily Baker-White
The team primarily conducts investigations (click here) into potential misconduct by current and former ByteDance employees. But in at least two cases, the Internal Audit team also planned to collect TikTok data about the location of a U.S. citizen who had never had an employment relationship with the company, the materials show. It is unclear from the materials whether data about these Americans was actually collected; however, the plan was for a Beijing-based ByteDance team to obtain location data from U.S. users’ devices.
TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said that TikTok collects approximate location information based on users’ IP addresses to “among other things, help show relevant content and ads to users, comply with applicable laws, and detect and prevent fraud and inauthentic behavior."
But the material reviewed by Forbes indicates that ByteDance's Internal Audit team was planning to use this location information to surveil individual American citizens, not to target ads or any of these other purposes. Forbes is not disclosing the nature and purpose of the planned surveillance referenced in the materials in order to protect sources. TikTok and ByteDance did not answer questions about whether Internal Audit has specifically targeted any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figures or journalists....
TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said that TikTok collects approximate location information based on users’ IP addresses to “among other things, help show relevant content and ads to users, comply with applicable laws, and detect and prevent fraud and inauthentic behavior."
But the material reviewed by Forbes indicates that ByteDance's Internal Audit team was planning to use this location information to surveil individual American citizens, not to target ads or any of these other purposes. Forbes is not disclosing the nature and purpose of the planned surveillance referenced in the materials in order to protect sources. TikTok and ByteDance did not answer questions about whether Internal Audit has specifically targeted any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figures or journalists....
EVEN THE COMMUNISTS DON'T LIKE COMMUNISM!
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENTS!!
No search warrant, no civil rights and no freedom of speech. Does anyone actually value what occurs in these countries?
Why would Putin demand the jailing of Pavel Duroy? He was by every measure a "good Russian." He assisted in social structure of the Russian people. He gave the Russian people something every other country had, the internet and a social media site. So, why arrest him, jail him and ultimately destroy him?
Why?
Because Pavel Durov was a good Russia and was a very smart Russian and shutting down his social website would only result in Pavel Durov looking for another way to launch an underground social media site that would be leveraged against Putin or communism or just plain happiness. THAT IS WHY PAVEL DUROV RAN AWAY FROM RUSSIA. He was a good Russian and it didn't matter.
By Danny Hakim
London - When a SWAT team appeared at Pavel Durov’s door in St. Petersburg, (click here) he started thinking about his future in Russia.
He was home alone, and he peered at them through a monitor.
“They had guns and they looked very serious,” said Mr. Durov, once Russia’s biggest celebrity entrepreneur. “They seemed to want to break the door.”
Not long ago, Mr. Durov, 30, was seen as Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg. He founded a social network, VKontakte, which is more popular in Russia than Facebook, and made a splash by publicly offering Edward Snowden a job.
Then the Kremlin tightened its grip over the Internet and President Vladimir V. Putin’s allies took control of VKontakte. Mr. Durov eventually sold his remaining stake for millions and fled Russia in April, after resisting government pressure to release the data of Ukrainian protest leaders....
