This app should have been banned from both appstores when it was found to be exfiltrating all clipboard data. Insane that it's still permitted by Apple and Google after such an obvious display of malevolence.
>What other explanation is there for this other than some type of china-USA (or global) conspiracy?
Perhaps the fact that every other major social company has been found of doing the same (Facebook and Google multiple times) and yet nothing happened to their apps, at best they got a "slap on the wrist" at times...
The focus on Tik-Tok is more about a shot in the US-China trade and geopolitical rivarly than because it's somehow unique
coldtea|3 years ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-priva...
https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/17/google_reportedly...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204880404577225...
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/privacy-lawsuits-ac...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2022/09/22/face...
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/22/meta-lawsuit-ios-privacy/
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/09/facebook-user...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-l...
lazyeye|3 years ago
Is there anything unreasonable about treating China the same way it treats others?
cute_boi|3 years ago
lazyeye|3 years ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tim-cook-275-billion-c...
srcreigh|3 years ago
I suppose it’s the threat of TikTok paving the way for non App Store deployments. Reducing power of the app stores.
Or maybe it’s US companies believing they can use permission systems to tame the information flow to TikTok servers.
coldtea|3 years ago
Perhaps the fact that every other major social company has been found of doing the same (Facebook and Google multiple times) and yet nothing happened to their apps, at best they got a "slap on the wrist" at times...
The focus on Tik-Tok is more about a shot in the US-China trade and geopolitical rivarly than because it's somehow unique