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My TikTok Tale.
Five years ago I was working for a Chinese owned manufacturing company trying to gain a foothold in the US market. They set up an arrangement with a small US engineering firm here in Illinois. Some of my colleagues traveled here from Shanghai and we spoke, openly on US soil. All our correspondence was run through Chinese servers, monitored and censored. We had to be very careful. Early on, I had a few emails bounce back due to their censorship. Lesson learned.
While they were here, my colleagues told me that TikTok was collecting data on everyone, their face, bodies, spending habits, families, friends, travel, homes, schools - everything. Eventually, that data would be put to use, not in a particularly good way. In China, a negative surveillance report can deny education, housing and career advancement. It's so odious.
I never downloaded the app, and once I left the job, I deleted everything connected to that company. TikTok became very addictive, the best outcome for collecting data. It's spyware, a creepy consumer and life altering determinant. ☠️ 💩 ⛔
Five years ago I was working for a Chinese owned manufacturing company trying to gain a foothold in the US market. They set up an arrangement with a small US engineering firm here in Illinois. Some of my colleagues traveled here from Shanghai and we spoke, openly on US soil. All our correspondence was run through Chinese servers, monitored and censored. We had to be very careful. Early on, I had a few emails bounce back due to their censorship. Lesson learned.
While they were here, my colleagues told me that TikTok was collecting data on everyone, their face, bodies, spending habits, families, friends, travel, homes, schools - everything. Eventually, that data would be put to use, not in a particularly good way. In China, a negative surveillance report can deny education, housing and career advancement. It's so odious.
I never downloaded the app, and once I left the job, I deleted everything connected to that company. TikTok became very addictive, the best outcome for collecting data. It's spyware, a creepy consumer and life altering determinant. ☠️ 💩 ⛔