Former TikTok senior data scientist:
“I literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China”
“They were completely complicit in that. There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this.”
Former TikTok senior data scientist:
“I literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China”
“They were completely complicit in that. There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this.”
As an American, I would be appalled if my data were provided to the Chinese government for anything less than Meta charges to provide that info. It’s just unfair to TikTok and I believe in a free market in commoditizing the lives of human beings.
Having raw, fined grained telemetry about virtually every action you take and that can be upgraded to collect more details at will with a new app version push is way, way different than being able to say “show this ad to people in ZIP code 12345”
Meta actually doesn’t sell your data (this is complicated and not as good as it sounds: https://themarkup.org/the-breakdown/2021/09/02/what-does-it-actually-mean-when-a-company-says-we-do-not-sell-your-data)
Ok, fine. I concede the point. Replace Meta with 50 data brokers that sell “anonymized” location data on everyone who ever downloaded a free app.