TikTok Has Been Quietly Sending Job Applicants' Personal Data to China (businessinsider.com) 60
TikTok routes the personal data of job applicants through servers in China, and only discloses this to candidates in certain countries, Business Insider has discovered. From a report: US job candidates, notably, are not told their data will be routed through China. Some of the personal information TikTok says it collects about applicants is potentially highly sensitive, with the firm's own policies stating that it collects medical data; sex and race data; marital status; geolocation data, among many other categories. The revelation is an embarrassment for TikTok, which has spent much of 2020 maintaining that it is separate to its Chinese owner ByteDance, and fending off unproven insinuations by President Trump that it funnels user data to China. After being approached by Business Insider, TikTok said it would no longer store job applicant data in China.
And for 3 months that's what they did. (Score:1)
After it all died down of course, and people forgot, they went right back to sending data to china.
This is how Chinese companies work. Learn.
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Sure, we can't travel freely without having to show papers or submit to fruit inspections, but we're still *way* more free that all the dipshit sheep in China who don't realize 1 billion+ people could easily drag Xi out of his mansion and beat him to death in some back alley somewhere...
And replace it with what exactly?
Total anarchy?
Evil populist AKA Trumper?
Xi's identical twin brother/cousin?
India's stifling bureaucracy? (There's a reason China brought a billion people out of poverty and India didn't)
Civil war?
A billion people could easily do lots of things if motivated enough. Maybe the majority of them realise the alternatives may end up being better in the far distant future. But it wouldn't be pretty in the short term, they might not make it to that future.
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hypocrisy is a logical fallacy.
The actions of China do not become better or worse based on the alleged actions of Americans or the west regardless of the merit of accusations.
It's a Chinese company (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: "unproven insinuations by President Trump" (Score:1)
Nobody cares about your head-reality though.
Docs prescribed antipsychotics for a reason. Take them.
Have shitty privacy laws... (Score:5, Insightful)
... get shitty privacy. Maybe if privacy was actually a topic in the elections because enough people cared about it, things would be a bit different.
That it can be done is nicely demonstrated by the GDPR. It is not perfect but pretty nice. And it comes with some real threats to violators that actually get implemented.
That is a 10% of their world turnover (Score:1)
In fact, the pussycat is already hissing that they are not particularly welcome, this will only add to their "requirests for information": https://www.scmp.com/news/chin... [scmp.com]
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Then I go to that link and am immediately hit with a request to use google to sign in. I didn't ask to sign in! The page has a helpful link to a page explaining why I can trust SCMP.
China is a personal information dumpster fire.
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Then I go to that link and am immediately hit with a request to use google to sign in. I didn't ask to sign in! The page has a helpful link to a page explaining why I can trust SCMP.
China is a personal information dumpster fire.
Apologies. As I use noscript by default I usually do not see any of this sh*t.
In any case - they had their European HQ in London and they want to move it to Ireland for obvious reasons - the Irish DPA are less like 5 people in a corner shop in some god forgotten town in the country: https://twitter.com/dpcireland... [twitter.com]
That is the actual reason why all the usual suspects are in Ireland. Taxes are only secondary - Bulgaria, Hungary, etc have same or even lower corporate tax.
I find it quite funny that the r
Re: Chinese company sends data to China (Score:1)
True dat.
Re:Chinese company sends data to China (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, American companies send applicant data to their American head office, German ones to their German office and British ones to whichever foreign country bought their business.
It's hardly news that a Chinese company would provide data to its home country because everybody does it.
Hell, how else do you keep a central record of who actually works for the company and plan your global workforce?
Re: Unproven? (Score:2)
"now proven"
Pleas take your anti-psychotics, my friend.
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Is the first paragraph referring to this story? If so, would you mind filling in the gaps and explaining how information on job applicants is a national security issue? It's clearly a privacy issue, but I would have thought that the bar for "national security problem" is rather higher.
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If so, would you mind filling in the gaps and explaining how information on job applicants is a national security issue?
Depending on the nature of the information collected it could have future value in turning someone into an asset for intelligence purposes. Seems like a "long game" kind of approach, but I can picture a big database that holds all of the information that can be hoovered up about people ready to be exploited if/when some of those people gain sensitive positions. Even if the information itself isn't threatening, it could be used in social engineering to gain trust which is then leveraged into some compromis
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BS. the alleged president lies about everything. Surely he was going to pick some close to the truth just by chance. I suppose China will have a field day with teenagers' tales of angst and acne, that's a national security problem right there.
Re: Trump and Proof (Score:1)
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Teenagers grow up. What about the future?
Giving your personal info to Facebook is bad enough in the US. Would you like Facebook to give all of their info to the US government in order to track you? How would you like to give all of that to a Chinese version of Facebook and inherently the Chinese government?
If you're on Tiktok, then you already did.
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This happens all the time.
He was right about zinc+HCQ, the media went apeshit on him over that. They care more about attacking him than they care about the lives of Americans.
He was right about a vaccine being available by end of year. The media and dems shit their pants over that too.
It goes on and on. [pjmedia.com]
TDS has damaged the logic pathways in many people's brains. It's tragic.
Re: Trump and Proof (Score:2)
You are incorrectly conflating user and employee privacy with national security. The CCP could hoover up every single detail about me and it would not affect the nationâ(TM)s security one whit. Iâ(TM)ve never had a security clearance, never been in the military, never worked for one of the TLAs, and the one government contractor I worked for was such a miserable and toxic workplace that I bailed out before getting a clearance. I would not, personally, be happy about a potential employer sending my
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You are incorrectly conflating your own information with the fact that there ARE users who do have clearances, been in the military, and are government contractors.
Zero surprise! (Score:1)
Everyone is the security community has been saying this for months, Trump has been railing against this company for just as long. No one cares, they are happy to send their data to anyone so long as they get their entertainment value in return.
Hiring done by HQ! Wow! (Score:2)
Anyway, most people have more details on LinkedIn than they have on a job applications.
Medical data (Score:3)
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Yeah, that seems like the biggest hole in this whole article. Especially a video-sharing social media platform.
Re: Medical data (Score:2)
Note: "job applicants"
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Never been something requested (because it's illegal) and even when employed, and the company was paying my insurance they didn't have access to.
Re: Medical data (Score:2)
It's also illegal to even ask, in Germany.
How can I update my personal data? (Score:3)
I don't like the personal data that I have, how can I change it?
Re: How can I update my personal data? (Score:2)
How do you figure that would work, even if you chanfed it?
Might aswell ask somebody to give the secret "back" that you told them.
culture jam the shit out of it (Score:2)
Is data still secret if it no longer reflect reality? If I change my birthday, race, income level, occupation, or location. Then whatever you have on file quickly becomes irrelevant.
Yes, and? ... Also: "Quietly"? (Score:2)
They are a Chinese company.
Hence ther servers are obviously in China.
Which, yes, has an evil leadership.
And?
Every time we have to use US sites in the EU,
our data goes to US servers.
To us, the US has an evil leadership.
Have I complained that "Tuh ebil Muricans are stealin' our dataz!"?
No, I don't blame some business for a leadership they did not even choose.
Your addition of "quietly", as if it was some evil scheming, is as transparent as ever, Mr. Trump news troll.
I'm sorry, your four years of fame are over
Nothing illegal about it. (Score:5, Insightful)
I am In venezuela, and: (Score:4, Insightful)
When I applied to Huawei Venezuela in 2008, my CV (with all personal data) found its way from the Venezuelan offcie to China. Ditto in 2012 but as an independent contractor for them.
When I applied for an MBA in the Venezuelan office of an Spanish Business School, my CV found its way from the Venezuelan office to Spain.
When I applied from Vz to work for Siemens in Colombia in 2004, my CV found its way from Colombia to Germany.
And when I applied to work for Nokia in 1999, my CV found its way to Finland...
So? What is wrong here? Am I missing something?
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When I applied to Huawei Venezuela in 2008, my CV (with all personal data) found its way from the Venezuelan offcie to China. Ditto in 2012 but as an independent contractor for them.
When I applied for an MBA in the Venezuelan office of an Spanish Business School, my CV found its way from the Venezuelan office to Spain.
When I applied from Vz to work for Siemens in Colombia in 2004, my CV found its way from Colombia to Germany.
And when I applied to work for Nokia in 1999, my CV found its way to Finland...
So? What is wrong here? Am I missing something?
Not sure if you noticed this, this China / CCP we are talking about. You really need to check your assumptions.
Breakin' the law! (Score:2)
Is this a problem? (Score:2)
Hmm once again... (Score:1)
dang (Score:1)