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Arkansas AG warns Temu isn't like Amazon or Walmart: 'It's a theft business'
SecurityThe Chinese and Trump's little boyfriends in Russia and North Korea have sophisticated software spy and disruption efforts. The Chinese embedded spyware in components used in servers. Their security cameras connect back to the homeland. Kaspersky anti virus is made by one of Putin's pals and was recently banned from sale in the US. TikTok faces a similar challenge for data collection. Temu looks like another problem outfit. Stranger danger.
Since you bring up TikTok and imply they're sharing data with China (which I'm not denying), why is this not an issue with every other major company that Tencent owns a large portion of?
Riot Games (100% ownership)
Epic Games (40% ownership)
Discord (38%)
Riot games even requires a root level anti-cheat system that essentially has full access to the contents of your computer. Why is that not a data collection issue but TikTok is?
There is a social engineering / social disruption aspect too... China can control what you see and influence your actions or political views without you even knowing it.
So can the US and a plethora of other countries. It's a bit tired seeing people continuously act like China is the problem, when it's the complete lack of data privacy and consumer protection laws. Why stop one country from being a bad actor when we can stop all of them?