Teen Mental Health App Sent Kid’s Data Straight to (cue red menace) TikTok
Ahem…
was leaking data about who visited the website to TikTok, Meta, Snap, and other social media companies
I’m no Sinophobe, I do think there’s a point to be made about social media data harvesting and mainlining it to ANY government, and that the CCP is definitely not a government I would trust with open access to all my digital doings. That headline is patently fucking ridiculous click-bait fear mongering, there’s numerous US politicians on record saying that privacy concerns have nothing to do with their torch and pitchfork agenda re:TikTok, and the line I quoted above is in the first 1-3 paragraphs. The reality is that corporate/government owned social media has only a few uses:
- mass collection of data for surveillance, profiling individuals for profit or
- as the ProPublica piece on the NSSF and Cambridge Analytics VoteGun operation highlights, manipulation of people through profiling to push political agendas and tamper with elections
I’ll edit this with a link to the article in a few minutes.
Edit: https://www.propublica.org/article/guns-lobbying-cambridge-analytica-nssf-privacy-elections
Excellent analysis, the headline buries the real story.
These corporate parasites are using contract law to override actual law and daddy Sam let’s them.
If you don’t protect yourself, they will take you for a ride folks.
You feeling ok bud? This is waaaay out of character for you. I’ve not seen you not shit post…ever!
In seriousness though. We’ve been shown what they’re doing time and again, and they’ve greased enough palms and swallowed enough spooge that they only ever get a “cost of business” slap on the wrist, and chiding tut.
“Ah ah ah, mind we spoke about not showing the sheep what we’re doing. I’d like to go to the Bahamas next week, all inclusive, see you at the shareholders meeting in April.”
🐸
Real change will happen when we hit critical mass of people understanding thats how these thing work.
So much work to be done!
