The majority of Americans — about 59% — say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a recent survey of U.S. adults. The findings from Pew Research Center’s…

The majority of Americans — about 59% — say TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States, according to a recent survey of U.S. adults. The findings from Pew Research Center’s…

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    275·
    1 year ago

    Most of those probably just don’t like that their kids are on it all the time. At least some do understand that the real threat is all the data it is constantly collecting from our cameras and microphones as well as location data. It’s not limited to kids either, plenty of adults in jobs that should be secure are walking around with a Chinese wiretap/homing beacon in their pocket.

    • Cruxifux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      I’m honestly more worried about local companies getting this information from me at such a constant rate. We have plenty of enemies at home, and the rich around here have done infinitely more damaging things to me and my family than anything the Chinese have done to us yet.

      • Dark Arc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        1 year ago

        I get this perspective, but I think it really down plays the lack of control we have over foreign products.

        Like, if a US company put a bunch of employees in place and then had them simultaneously break into people’s houses, the US could arrest those who orchestrated the problem.

        If a Chinese company did the same thing, sure we can arrest the individuals (if they’re still in the county), but we’re completely powerless as a nation to do anything to those that started the problem or those that escaped the country before we found out what they did.

        Like the normal concepts of what’s legal are just out the window, everything is legal when you’re talking about nations vs other nations.