• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The United States is not an enemy nation to the EU. Nor does the United States own Meta or Xitter.

      That being said if EU nations were worried about the NSA collecting information on their citizens and had reason to believe Meta was complicit in that, then they absolutely should ban Meta. I mean they have the GDPR don’t they.

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        6 months ago

        They basically do, as revealed by Snowden documents when the US forced American companies like AT&T, Microsoft, or Google to let them spy on their users. I don’t even think Tik Tok stores their user data in China servers, it’s in Texas or Virginia or Singapore.

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          6 months ago

          This was the original compromise, but Byte Dance repeatedly gave access to said servers to engineers with ties to the CCP against the agreement’s stipulations. Byte Dance broke the compromise.

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          6 months ago

          Well then yeah maybe the EU should ban them. Thats up to them, but I would totally understand it if they did.

          As for TikTok’s user data, it doesn’t matter where it’s geographically stored. ByteDance has unfettered access to the data regardless, which means the CCP has unfettered access to it.