TikTok's New Policies Remove Promise To Notify Users Before Government Data Disclosure (forbes.com) 40
TikTok changed its policies earlier this year on sharing user data with governments as the company negotiated with the Trump Administration to continue operating in the United States. The company added language allowing data sharing with "regulatory authorities, where relevant" beyond law enforcement. Until April 25, 2025, TikTok's website stated the company would notify users before disclosing their data to law enforcement. The policy now says TikTok will inform users only where required by law and changed the timing from before disclosure to if disclosure occurs. The company also softened its language from stating it "rejects data requests from law enforcement authorities" to saying it "may reject" such requests. TikTok declined to answer repeated questions from Forbes about whether it has shared or is sharing private user information with the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The timing difference prevents users from challenging subpoenas before their data is handed over.
Also Trump is about to put his youngest son (Score:5, Insightful)
I know it's pointless to call them out for hypocrisy. They simply do not have enough self-awareness to understand the emotion.
But Jesus Christ people stop enabling these lunatics. At a certain point you just stop voting Republican
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This is not true
It hasn't happened yet [newsweek.com], which places it more into the realm of "plausible rumor" than "not true".
Also, the kid looks like a vampire.
Trump doesn't chicken out (Score:2)
So if he can get away with putting his son in charge of a multi-billion dollar company that he has dictatorial control over using the office of President of the United States he will absolutely do it.
The only question is will the general public and the upper crust, especially the upper crust, have a little panic about it or will they just let it slide.
Trump is always pushing the boundaries and every time he does we lose a little bit of our co
Whoever owns this bot (Score:3)
And besides who can compete with Trump's 28 credible rape accusations, especially when eight of them were against children?! Joe Biden doesn't even have a single rape accusation.
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At this late date, you say that? ROTFLMAO!!!
"Successful businessmen" do not have six major bankruptcies. And then there's Trump U (convicted as a fraud), Trump Steaks, Trump...
And you can listen to a whole speech by him, and tell us he's not senile and demented?
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And people gave Jared the money they did because he's such a swell, likeable guy?
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TikTok is politically very left leaning. Lots of young people upset about the breakdown of the social contract, landlordism, worker exploitation, social justice, that kind of thing.
This is a very dangerous time for the US.
Is anyone surprised? (Score:5, Interesting)
It is guaranteed this is what Trump mandated when he had Ellison buy TT. That way he can continue to go after anyone who says mean things about him or tries to hold him accountable for his crimes.
Welcome to fascism 101.
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Nah this is more like fascism 201. We're beyond little league at this point.
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But Kamala LAUGHED ok? She LAUGHED. Could you even imagine?
Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score:4)
But Kamala LAUGHED ok? She LAUGHED. Could you even imagine?
The GOP's outrage has always been performative. Obama put haute mustard on his burger: huge scandal. Trump posts AI slop non-stop: he's just owning the libz with his clever trolling.
Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score:4, Insightful)
i'm still on the fence of considering trump a zionist (either rabid or opportunistic), or just pretending to be one in order to dodge a bullet. 40/60. what i don't doubt is that you're going to see far less innocent palestinian civilian death and abuse on tik-tok going forward, as ellison no doubt is a zionist (an evangelical zionist to be more precise, which is to say, ultimately an anti-semite. oh the irony!), and that was the whole issue with tik-tok from the beginning.
bold move, but i think they already lost this battle and this will backfire, it's way too late for israel and the us (and ofc their european/arab/ottoman lackeys, not forgetting the omnipresent british instigators, always in the shadow) to shake off that pariah status. there is a place in the hell of history for all of them. which is not necessaryily a good thing, because it will make sheer violence their only option from there on.
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your "whole world" is really a minority considering total population. ofc this is not about population, but elites playing geopolitics, which are minorities by definition.
but i will concede that russia is in a pretty ambiguous and shady position, putin has been dancing around with netanyahu too, for quite while, albeit to much lesser extent, and i'm still not sure what to make of it, but i definitely despise it. then again that i think he's doing the right thing with respect to the proxy war (and doing it q
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I wonder if there will be a big exodus like there was with Twitter when Musk took over. Lots of people moved to Bluesky, which is a lot like the old Twitter. Almost zero Nazis.
Yeah, yeah, it's a bubble, sheeple need to wake up etc.
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Lots of people moved to Bluesky, which is a lot like the old Twitter. Almost zero Nazis.
It's also like the new twitter, in that there's a bunch of censorship. And ironically (one hopes) it's often aimed at people spreading anti-Trump messaging.
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That way he can continue to go after anyone who says mean things about him or tries to hold him accountable for his crimes.
We still technically have the 1A, for what it's worth. It's more likely that the plan is simply to bias the algorithm in favor of right-wing content, and deprioritize left-wing viewpoints. We'll know it happens when Harry Sisson's engagement falls off a cliff and you can't escape videos from all the Temu Gen-Zers trying to be the next Charlie Kirk.
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Absolutely.
I am sure geolocation and facial data from tik-tok posts of genocide evidence are being fed into the AI assisted murder programs "Lavender", "Where's Daddy" and the security cameras they use at "aid sites" in order to murder more witnesses and journalists now that Zionists have purchased it.
Less Privacy? (Score:3)
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Well, you can't be sure. Possibly they're just now being more protective against lawsuits.
Re:Less Privacy? (Score:4, Informative)
So the US government in charge means a reduction in nominal privacy from when the Chinese government was in charge? Or not in charge or whatever.
I mean... yes and no.
No, because you know that there wasn't really privacy before because despite the ToS, if the Chinese government asked for data, they would've got data.
Yes, because now the United States can get it too.
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TikTok USA or TikTok International? (Score:3)
With these sorts of stories, it would be a good idea to specify which version of TikTok it refers to. As an Australian, I don't really care what happens to the US version.
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There is no TikTok in China. ByteDance has a kind of similar video sharing service called Douyin in China, but it isn't the same.