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It's not a panic when it's clear as day this app is used for surveillance purposes



So is Google Search, but few are calling for banning that.


Did Google turn over data to a government to help track that person down, arrest them, and intern them in a political reeducation camps ?


Almost certainly. They definitely turned over data to the US government to help them locate and connect people of interest (see Edward Snowden's revelations), some of which was very likely used to incarcerate people. Whether you consider incarceration equivalent to re-education is debatable. I find it quite likely that they also did this for other governments with less scruples about human rights.

Either way, pretty sure no US citizens have been incarcerated in political re-education camps in the USA because of data shared with any government by either Google or Tik Tok or anyone else.


If you are referencing criminals charged through the justice system, that is decidedly not the same as hunting down ethnic minorities based on their race and religion without charge or trial. You must know this.

> They definitely turned over data to the US government to help them locate and connect people of interest

Citation?

> Whether you consider incarceration equivalent to re-education is debatable.

It's not, see above.

> I find it quite likely that they also did this for other governments with less scruples about human rights.

Citation?

> pretty sure no US citizens have been incarcerated in political re-education camps

You can be very sure because political re-education camps don't exist. There is a lot to criticize about the American justice system, this isn't applicable.


My parents peeping into my personal info and my neighbors down the street peeping into my personal info are two different things.


Sure, but neither Google nor Facebook are your parents.

And a US citizen has much more to lose if their private data is being shared with the US government than with the Chinese government.


Oh you're right.. Fuck it, I may as well just install a camera in my bathroom and live stream it. /s




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