TikTok: Yes, some staff in China can access US data TikTok, owned by Chinese outfit ByteDance, last month said it was making an effort to minimize the amount of data from US users that gets transferred outside of America, following reports that company engineers in the Middle Kingdom had access to US customer data. "100 percent of US user traffic is being routed to Oracle Cloud …
Their only focus is on putting up a smokescreen and to confuse both regulators and customers by making cosmetic changes. Why does the data need to be backed-up in Singapore (which is a Chinese vassal state)? I'm pretty sure all the data will end up in China regardless.
TikTok should be shut down.
I doubt if anyone in Singapore would think of themselves as 'living in a Chinese vassal state'.
I think that ByteDance is being 'Huawei-ed'. You'll recall that Huawei tried to address all the concerns raised against them but ultimately they couldn't deal with the biggies -- they're Chinese and they're successful. Cardinal sins.
Given the goings on here, especially the January 6th hearings and all the BS surrounding government, media and propaganda I'm surprised that anyone listens to "Republican Legislators". The Senate might think its important but its not, its now so disconnected from people and their lives it exists in a fantasy world. There are still True Believers, of course, especially when it suits their personal agenda but for most of us there's a bit of a 'credibility gap'. I'm just surprised that anyone takes them seriously.
>The biggest 'biggie' is the Chinese state.
The Chinese state just 'is'. We in the US have just got to get out of the habit of pretending that anyone that isn't America is automatically our enemy. Its not only racist but it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We could have got away with it back When American Was Great (back in the good old white days) but the world is different now. If nothing else the Chinese state is big enough to look Big Dog USA in the eye and go "Woof!" if it chooses to.
We have to choices. We can retreat into nostalgia for a time that never existed, mouthing empty slogans about Making American Great Again, or we can roll up our collective sleeves and compete. One problem with being Top Dog is that everyone wants our position; we have to actively work to maintain it, we won't get anywhere by threats and intimidation (so I wonder why we keep trying?).
Maybe they don't think it, but they certainly are. Singapore was originally a Chinese colony in Malay and ethnic Chinese are ruling the city state since like forever. They do have a stringent law that every company needs to have 50% Malay ownership, but the ruling class is all Chinese.
> need to be backed-up in Singapore (which is a Chinese vassal state)?
This highlights your ignorance.
Singapore isn't a Chinese vassal state by any stretch of the imagination. They're fiercely independant and, if anything, tend to look down on Chinese a little too much.
TikTok has 2 main locations, one in the US, one in SG. They back one up to the other to provide regional redundancy.
There's no smoke and mirrors here.
That doesn't mean they can or should be trusted, but overreacting to something a lot of companies do doesn't strengthen anyone's case
> The change of administrations has not really diminished concerns about data privacy, data sovereignty, and supply chain security.
…on either side of the Atlantic.
Yet instead of forcing American companies (subject to the US CLOUD act) to put "their" data under trust with EU companies, the European Commission heads straight on for a Schrems III.
Yes, so I keep hearing.
But the fact is, this "being sold" is a pretty painless experience, really. Nobody is putting a collar round my neck, making me stand on a block and pose for bidders. It's a lot less intrusive than, for instance, applying for a job, or a passport, or registering to vote. Let alone actually crossing an international border.
I don't think this hyperbolic language ("being sold" my arse) is doing the job you want it to do.
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