> It should have nothing to do with spying since there isn't anything important that's submitted to the app
How can anyone say that's not true today? I thought we all had the same wake-up call that metadata is as important as the data itself a few years ago already.
Quantity being a quality all of its own, who can even say what it's possible to infer if you had the ability to data mine Tiktok? I mean, supposedly it was possible at one point to tell when shit's doing down in DC just because there was a spike in late night pizza delivery.
It's basically a global training program to teach youth to constantly be making and posting videos online in inappropriate places.
you can probably datamine TikTok without being Bytedance, simply by data scraping using fake accounts, going through profiles etc. In that sense it's as much of a threat to the US as Youtube, since people are making all kinds of videos in all kinds of places, and the videos are easily scrapable as of right now
Sure, maybe you can just scrape. Was the CCP supposed to sit around and wait for someone else to do Tiktok, so they could just scrape that instead?
Whatever obnoxious crap is on Youtube nowdays, the content's notably different and unlikely to be timely. And that's if it even leaks the same sort of metadata.
How can anyone say that's not true today? I thought we all had the same wake-up call that metadata is as important as the data itself a few years ago already.
Quantity being a quality all of its own, who can even say what it's possible to infer if you had the ability to data mine Tiktok? I mean, supposedly it was possible at one point to tell when shit's doing down in DC just because there was a spike in late night pizza delivery.
It's basically a global training program to teach youth to constantly be making and posting videos online in inappropriate places.