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thefugue t1_j65drxa wrote

Reply to comment by synchrohighway in A US state asked for evidence to ban TikTok. The FBI offered none | Technology by scrtwpnx

The app collects way more data than even the worst offenders we're used to hearing about.

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whatshelooklike t1_j65fpjm wrote

Who NSA?

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thefugue t1_j65iikm wrote

The NSA doesn’t collect American data without a warrant.

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whatshelooklike t1_j65j2ic wrote

Snowden leaks disagree.

The EU disagrees.

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thefugue t1_j65jdrw wrote

Snowden didn’t “leak” anything. Everything he drew attention to was covered in the NY Times when the Patriot Act was passed. If people were unaware of the Five Eyes agreement that was because it works.

Besides, there’s no comparison. One is a national security program, the other is a video app with no legitimate social benefit.

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whatshelooklike t1_j65k9qk wrote

What are you talking about...

On June 6, 2013, Americans learned that their government was spying broadly on its own people.

That’s when The Guardian and The Washington Post published the first of a series of reports put together from documents leaked by an anonymous source. The material exposed a government-run surveillance program that monitored the communications records of not just criminals or potential terrorists, but law-abiding citizens as well.

Three days later the source unmasked himself as Edward Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor.

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whatshelooklike t1_j65ji9z wrote

In the immediate wake of the early NSA revelations, the agency’s director, General Keith Alexander, claimed the NSA surveillance had contributed to the prevention of 54 plots.

Eventually, deputy NSA director John Inglis conceded that, at most, one plot.

Yeah....they sound trustworthy...warrant. you naive human

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OrganicPrinciple130 t1_j67wovi wrote

TikTok collects the same amount of data every other social media app collects. They are just mad it’s not something the government can control.

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