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You're worried about privacy, and your answer is Rednote?
Some people just can’t be helped I guess
I am worried about privacy from the US government. I do not care what the chinese government knows about me because I am not Chinese.
The Chinese voluntarily supplied the TikTok data to the US Government. They also used the app to promote Donald Trump's second term to start with.
The servers might be moving locations soon but its still accessed and maintained by chinese military in Beijing.
You should care. It is affecting you.
They moved the servers for US version of TikTok to the US, appointed a bunch of state department ghouls, and eventually sold it to a US company to comply with US regulations and avoid simply getting banned. Rednote is entirely chinese and has no such requirements.
You know the CCP runs secret police operations in sovereign countries around the world, where they try to apply Chinese laws to residents of other countries outside of China, right?
They focus mainly on the Chinese diaspora, because they think they own them, but it's not unthinkable that they might target anyone else if it advances their interests.
What do they have secret jail in the secret police station? Or do they just go around writing unenforceable tickets?
There are a lot of ways to fuck up people's lives and control them through a combination of manipulation, intimidation, and character assassination. Havana syndrome is also a real thing, and you don't have to be in Cuba to experience it, but good luck getting a doctor or anybody to take you seriously if you say you're having symptoms.
It doesn't necessarily involve going to secret jail, but if your name winds up on a list of "people whose lives to make hell," then you'd better get used to people thinking you're psychotic whenever you mention people who are stalking/spying on you.
No, its not, Cuba does not have a secret death laser.
That's not even what it is. Are you being facetious?
Yes I am being facetious, do you believe everything the state department says about its enemies, with zero evidence?
btw, it'd be cool if there was a Cuban Space Microwave defrosting CIA agents brains, other than ICE agents, I can't think of someone more deserving.
Not at all, but I do believe the USSR developed technologies that could simultaneously record people in secret while also dosing them with enough radiation and/or hypersonic/infrasonic interference to mess with their biological systems and give them headaches, nausea, vertigo, confusion, fatigue, and other symptoms, and bugged the walls of the US embassy in Havana with said devices.
I also believe the CIA developed a radiation gun that can give someone a heart attack/migraines/psychosis at a distance while leaving no audible or visible traces.
Just because "USSR = Bad" doesn't mean "CIA = Good." Not everybody has the cognitive development level of a cro magnon to where they think the world is so simple that they can divide everything into neat little categories such as "good vs. bad" or "if one side bad then the other good."
If you can’t figure out the myriad of ways the Chinese military can exploit the use of your data to your detriment, then you don’t really have any reason to be concerned if only because you can’t figure out why you should be concerned in the first place.
Eben Byers didn’t think he had any reason to be concerned, but that didn’t stop him from getting killed five years later.
The State will use it for the Same reasons the US State and Corporations use the data of us
The servers have not been moved to the cloud, they are as of today still in Beijing, and when they do move to the cloud Beijing will maintain full access.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/17/tech/tiktok-user-data-oracle
From the article:
Also pretty lame that CNN refused to point out that the services are centralized in Beijing, instead saying "Virginia and Singapore" which is an obvious lie by omission
Seems perfectly reasonable to me.