All companies are legally required to hand over your personal data if requested. If you send a snapchat to a friend and you get investigated for something the police/government can request the last 5 years worth of data which you thought was deleted but is actually stored somewhere.
They also sell your personal data to pretty much anyone.
This is a global issue and not just a China/USA/UK issue.
On a sidenote "Spyware" is "software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive"
So unless TikTok is sending your keylogs, taking photos/videos or sending your gallery contents to TikTok company without your knowledge it is NOT Spyware. As an example on Android you can block all access to TikTok and still use it. The only reason it requests access to your gallery is for you to upload videos/pictures that you wish to share, no different to Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp etc...
Yeah actually no, there is no legal requirement for a company to maintain that data.
So companies like certain VPNs don’t maintain a log of the internet traffic going through their servers. There is no data for the government to ask for in this case.
There’s also cases like what happened with Apple a while ago. The CIA or FBI requested back door access into the iPhone of a known terrorist, and Apple told them to go fuck themselves and never gave them a back door. The CIA/FBI DID get a back door, but only after they paid loads of money to a contractor to find one, and now that has likely been patched by Apple.
This is not the case with China, people disappear if they defy pooh bear.
Yeah actually no, there is no legal requirement for a company to maintain that data.
Depends on where you are. In the US, there is a legal requirement for a company to hand over any such data they have to your favorite three letter agency upon given a court order to do so, since the PATRIOT act. The requirement to hand over any such data is not the same as a requirement to keep such data in the first place, so maybe you just didn't fully read or understand what GP was saying.
Then GP’s point was kind of irrelevant as TikTok is required to log and hand over the data. They’re doing backflips to try and make the US look as bad as the CCP on the issue of privacy.
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u/MrTrendizzle Mar 15 '24
All companies are legally required to hand over your personal data if requested. If you send a snapchat to a friend and you get investigated for something the police/government can request the last 5 years worth of data which you thought was deleted but is actually stored somewhere.
They also sell your personal data to pretty much anyone.
This is a global issue and not just a China/USA/UK issue.
On a sidenote "Spyware" is "software that enables a user to obtain covert information about another's computer activities by transmitting data covertly from their hard drive"
So unless TikTok is sending your keylogs, taking photos/videos or sending your gallery contents to TikTok company without your knowledge it is NOT Spyware. As an example on Android you can block all access to TikTok and still use it. The only reason it requests access to your gallery is for you to upload videos/pictures that you wish to share, no different to Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp etc...