What I don't get about the whole TikTok spying on Americans argument is that why this is different than what Meta and Google et al does? I mean, can't China (which the accusation is directed at) just buy the data from any of the numerous data brokers anyway?
Norwegian investigative journalists have show how easy it is to piece together detailed info about random individuals from so-called anonymised tracking data you can just buy.
#Tracking #TikTok #Privacy #Meta #Google
@b870d4c8@393f4547 That one came across my timeline here on Mastodon this morning actually (with the original author), but I still think we have a bit to go before Mastodon has this news effect.
@681e4748 However, if you fasten the toast to the back of a cat, you end up with a quantum superposition of up and down, and all directions are up and down at the same time until you meet another spaceship, in which case the wave function of the cat/toast system collapses and "up" is known.
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