TikTok Tracks You Now. Biden Ok With That

Episode 12: In less than a week, ByteDance (TikTok drug makers) went from: we're tracking your kids data and making copies of their faces to POTUS saying, "meh, whatevs."

Remember when Trump was “looking into” whether or not to ban TikTok from American app stores? It was almost immediately disallowed from government-issued phones back in the pre-pandemic times of 2019. The military bans it outright. Marines, even woke ones, can’t make TikTok vids on government-issued phones anyway. But I wouldn’t taken that seriously. Anyone in the service that doesn’t have a government-issued phone, or is allowed their own private phone, could just as easily have TikTok.

TikTok quietly changed their privacy rights agreement recently. Guess what: their harvesting your face.

Shot:

From: Bloomberg Government <alerts@bgov.com>
Date: June 10, 2021 at 4:39:39 AM EDT
To:xxx@xxxx.xxx
Subject:Alert: China Passes Law to Strengthen Control Over Tech Firms’ Data (1)

And then the chaser from Wednesday’s WSJ.

We like to think the CCP is the problem. Without the help of the Davos crowd they would be a mainland Chinese problem, and maybe a problem for some smaller neighbors. How do you think ByteDance got their bans removed? K Street lobbyists is my guess.

Regardless…

“Xie xie, Washington,” says Shouzi Chew (pictured), ByteDance’s new CEO. He was a senior executive for Xiaomi prior to his newly appointed position at TikTok.

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