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Posts about tiktok written by Karl Bode, Mike Masnick, and Glyn Moody

Fri, Feb 26th 2021 1:37pm — Mike Masnick As you'll recall, last summer there was a whole performative nonsense thing with then President Trump declaring TikTok to be a national security threat (just shortly after some kids on TikTok made him look silly by reserving a million tickets to a Trump rally they never intended to attend). Trump and his cronies insisted that TikTok owner ByteDance had to sell the US operations of TikTok to an American firm. The whole rationale about this was the claim -- unsupported by any direct evidence -- that TikTok was a privacy risk, because it was owned by a ...

By Mara Hvistendahl The Intercept, February 22, 2020  Oracle documents tout how its software can be used to integrate social media activity with police data, including in Chinam, February 22, 2021   HOW ORACLE SELLS REPRESSION IN CHINA In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work. POLICE IN CHINA’S Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means: financial records, travel information, vehicl...

A Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/AlamyA Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen Shaver/UPI/Alamy How Oracle Sells Repression in China In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work. February 18 2021, 11:20 a.m. A Chinese woman uses her phone next to a mobile police command bus in Beijing on May 4, 2020. Photo: Stephen...