![]() ![]() Wihbey told Newsy that much of this issue is driven by competition concerns, so we may not get to that point if the U.S. So, it's kind of like the devil we don't know in a way, because we've not really had to deal with TikTok's corporate representatives for that long."īernotaite noted that until we find ways to ensure data transparency from all social media companies, regardless of where they’re based, we’re never going to find out exactly if and whether data misuse is occurring. Just really monetizing our attention," said Bernotaite. social media platforms like Snapchat, then Facebook, now Meta, Instagram, Pinterest have been taking advantage of that surveillance capitalism, as we call it. Any American platform with bottom line based on using personal data to serve ads could be collecting similar data. The other important question at hand here is whether TikTok collects more intrusive data than other social media companies. "And we don't yet know exactly how that data could be exploited." persons, and could be potentially tuning algorithms at various key points in the electoral cycles in the United States to try to influence voter behavior," said Wihbey. "I think there are some - there are some legitimate concerns that with some combination of otherwise private data, that the Chinese government could be building profiles about U.S. John Wihbey is an associate professor of media innovation at Northeastern University. We just provide them with a link to our Google Drive folder and thereby they can access the photos from there," said Ausma Bernotaite, a candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. And when we want to share photos with our loved ones, for example, we don't actually send a USB drive to them. "You can think about this as a Google drive, right? So you or most of us will have something on our Google Drives. The conversation shifted from data storage or giving data away to the Chinese government, to data access. Around the same time, Republican FCC Chair Brendan Carr published a letter in which he claimed to have new evidence that TikTok "harvests swaths of sensitive data" that "are being accessed in Beijing." data was "repeatedly" accessed from China. The newest cycle started in June, when Buzzfeed published leaked audio from 80 internal TikTok meetings which showed that U.S. It begs the question - what exactly is novel about these data misuse accusations in 2022? government entities attempt new investigations into TikTok’s data collection. That sale was eventually blocked, but it opened the door to a cycle in which, every few months, U.S. ![]() As far back as 2020, former President Donald Trump attempted to force the sale of the social media company TikTok to Oracle, claiming that the app was storing data collected on its American user base in China, and thus enabling the possible surveillance of U.S. ![]()
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