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China Evades U.S. Chip Bans - Tim Dillon on All-In

#exportcontrols #china #chinesegovernment #shellcompanies #profit #fyp #explore

Origins of Covid19

Feel there is near certainty that the #ChineseGovernment is covering up the origins of #Covid19.

If it was the wet market then it's almost unbelievable that the animal host would not have been found by now.
But no animal host has been identified.

If #LabLeak then this would be known to the Chinese government.

If there was a natural host then I think that would have been disclosed so as to rule out the damaging and destabilising lab-leak idea.

Maybe other factors in play?

Former aide to #NewYork governors charged with acting as an #agent of the #Chinesegovernment

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/03/us/linda-sun-former-hochul-staff-arrest/index.html

The recent advice from the director of Canada’s intelligence agency urging Canadians to remove TikTok from their phones has raised significant questions. If TikTok poses a security threat, why aren’t similar concerns raised about other major platforms like Google and Meta (Facebook)? This article explores the nuances and distinctions that contribute to the perceived threat from TikTok compared to other social media giants.

TikTok’s Unique Position

TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has come under scrutiny primarily because of its potential connections to the Chinese government. According to the 2017 Chinese National Intelligence Law, any Chinese organization or citizen is required to support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work. This law has fueled fears that the Chinese government could access TikTok’s vast troves of user data [❞].

The types of data TikTok collects include device information, browsing history, app usage, and even biometric data such as facial recognition and voice prints [❞]. This extensive data collection, combined with the geopolitical tensions between China and Western countries, underpins much of the concern.

Comparisons with Google and Meta

While TikTok’s data collection practices are extensive, it’s important to recognize that Google and Meta also engage in comprehensive data harvesting. Both companies track user behavior across their services and third-party websites through mechanisms like tracking pixels and cookies. For instance, Meta (Facebook) has been found collecting sensitive data from various online platforms, including government websites and hospital portals [❞].

However, the primary difference lies in the geopolitical context and ownership. Google and Meta are US-based companies, which means their data practices are subject to US laws and regulatory frameworks. Despite controversies, there is a level of transparency and accountability expected from them. These companies also face significant scrutiny and regulatory challenges within the US and Europe, aimed at protecting user privacy and data security [❞].

Security and Privacy Concerns

Both TikTok and its US counterparts have faced accusations of misusing user data. TikTok’s keylogging feature, which tracks users’ keyboard inputs within its in-app browser, has raised alarms. Although TikTok claims this feature is for debugging and performance monitoring, it theoretically allows the collection of sensitive data such as passwords and credit card information [❞].

Google and Meta, on the other hand, have been involved in various data privacy scandals. For instance, Meta has been implicated in using tracking pixels to collect data from unsuspecting users on third-party websites [❞]. Both companies have extensive advertising networks that rely on detailed user profiles to target ads effectively, which involves substantial data collection and analysis.

Government and Regulatory Responses

Governments and regulatory bodies worldwide have taken steps to mitigate these risks. In the US, TikTok has been subject to ongoing scrutiny by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) due to concerns over national security [❞]. CFIUS has the authority to compel ByteDance to divest TikTok if deemed necessary for national security.

Similarly, Google and Meta are frequently under the regulatory microscope. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe imposes strict data protection and privacy rules on these companies, compelling them to handle user data with greater care and transparency. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has also taken action against these companies for various privacy violations [❞] [❞].

The Role of Public Perception

Public perception plays a crucial role in how these companies are viewed. The narrative around TikTok is heavily influenced by its Chinese ownership and the associated geopolitical implications. Even without direct evidence of data misuse by the Chinese government, the theoretical risk is enough to create significant concern [❞].

In contrast, while Google and Meta are often criticized for their data practices, the threat is seen more in terms of corporate overreach and lack of transparency rather than state-level espionage. This distinction affects how regulatory bodies and the public respond to each company.

The security threats posed by TikTok, Google, and Meta are not entirely dissimilar, given that all engage in extensive data collection and tracking. However, the geopolitical context and ownership structure of TikTok amplify the perceived risk. While Google and Meta operate within frameworks that provide a level of accountability and transparency, TikTok’s ties to China and the potential implications of Chinese intelligence laws present a unique challenge.

As digital citizens, it is crucial to stay informed about how these platforms use our data and to advocate for stronger data protection regulations that apply uniformly across all tech companies, regardless of their country of origin. Through awareness and regulatory action, we can better manage the risks associated with using these pervasive digital platforms.

For further reading, you can explore detailed analyses from sources like CISecurity, The Register, Brookings, and more. These provide deeper insights into the complexities of data security in the age of social media.

If TikTok is a threat to my security, why aren’t Google and Meta?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHQBylSxCDs

https://miltonmarketing.com/news/if-tiktok-is-a-threat-to-my-security-why-arent-google-and-meta/

#advertisingNetworks #biometricData #ByteDance #CFIUS #china #ChineseGovernment #cybersecurity #dataCollection #dataHarvesting #DataPrivacy #dataProtection #digitalPlatforms #Facebook #FTC #GDPR #geopoliticalTensions #google #informationSecurity #keylogging #Meta #NationalIntelligenceLaw #privacyPolicy #publicPerception #regulatoryBodies #regulatoryScrutiny #securityThreat #Surveillance #TechGiants #TikTok #trackingPixels #USBasedCompanies #userData #userPrivacy

#China's internet #censors have deleted a video in which #children at a private #PerformingArts school in the southwestern province of #Sichuan dance to British rock band #PinkFloyd's 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" which featured a choir of #schoolchildren protesting overbearing authority & "thought control" in #education.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/banned-video-of-children-performing-pink-floyd-song-another-brick-in-the-wall-05212024134548.html

#AsianMastodon #ChineseGovernment #Censorship #HumanRights #ChildrensRights #ChinaCensorship

#ChineseGovernment says #relocations are poverty alleviation measures & new locations are ecologically sound, so that affected #Tibetans can improve their livelihoods by relocating, Pearson said.

“But in reality, that hasn’t been the case because many of the people are #pastoralists, and they live off the land, but when they move to more urban-like areas, the work options are different & they would need to speak #Chinese rather than Tibetan,” she added

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/forced-relocations-report-05212024160518.html

#AsianMastodon

@brianvastag
Thanks for posting.

I'm neutral as to the vector into humans.
IMO it matters only in as much as preventing future outbreaks, understanding and treating the current coronavirus pandemic matters.

But national pride and morale, political, governmental, medical and scientific careers are in play. As too is €$£¥.

But find it highly unlikely that the #ChineseGovernment has made a whole hearted effort to further research into the animal population source.

TikTok Sues US Government, Calling Ban Legislation ‘Unconstitutional’ https://petapixel.com/2024/05/07/tiktok-sues-us-government-calling-ban-legislation-unconstitutional/ #chinesegovernment #federalgovernment #nationalsecurity #government #tiktokban #Culture #banned #tiktok #News #Law

In 2011, Arıkan started his own small company and took polar codes to Qualcomm and Seagate to see if they had interest in implementing the idea.

“I did prepare some slides and sent them, but none of the US companies were really interested in it,” he says.

He takes the blame for failing to ignite their interest. “I was an academic who did not know how to promote an idea. Perhaps I did not believe in the idea that strongly myself.”

Later, those companies did work on polar codes and got their own patents, but without the same vigor as Huawei.

“If it weren't for the persistent efforts of Huawei researchers,” Arıkan says, “polar codes would not be in 5G today.”

I asked him about the over-the-top Huawei ceremony immortalized in that YouTube video.
He told me that he'd received the invitation to visit in June 2018.
“I said, ‘What is the occasion?’
And they said, ‘Mr. Ren wants to give you an award,’” Arıkan recalls.

“I figured that Huawei is very happy because the standard has been made, and polar coding is definitely in it.”

He thought he would show up and there would be a pleasant conversation with the founder and some engineers. He might leave with a plaque.

Arıkan arrived in Shenzhen and stayed at a guest house on campus.
He had tea with Ren and was toasted by executives, including Wen Tong.
But he sensed that something bigger was afoot.

“They revealed the program to me one step at a time. I didn't know how big that room would be, what kind of building we would go into. They didn't tell me to dress nicely.” (He did anyway.)

An hour before the ceremony his hosts informed him that perhaps he should prepare a speech.
He hurriedly finished his remarks in the town car on the way to the ceremony.

“I have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,” he told the crowd in his halting English.

“Today our roads cross on a happy occasion.”

The spectacle didn't go to Arıkan's head. “They were not honoring me,” he told me as we sat in his office.

“Huawei was saying, ‘We didn't steal this idea from anybody, and here is the originator of the idea.’

There is no question that Huawei is the most technologically sophisticated company in China.

Maybe for the first time in a thousand years, China is showing they are competing head to head with the rest of the world in technology.

The US could live with intellectual property theft, but it is much harder to live with being in competition with an equal power.

“Polar codes itself is not what's important,” he continued. “It is a symbol.

5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system.

Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years
—you cannot say that about the US tech companies.

In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies.

Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies.

Huawei and China now have the lead.”

US companies and the US government can no longer expect to beat China back with threats or indictments, even if they are sometimes warranted.

And it's not just telecom companies like Huawei.

For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched.

Arıkan says the experience has led him to respect Huawei
—and to provide a warning to the country where he learned information theory.

“I owe a lot to the US,” he says.
“I give you friendly advice:
You have to accept this as the new reality and deal with it accordingly.”

To paraphrase Shannon:
No one knows the future. But Huawei and China now have a hand in controlling it.

-- excerpts from:
https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-5g-polar-codes-data-breakthrough/

by Steven Levy, editor at large at Wired.

Steven has written seven books, including Hackers, Crypto, Artificial Life, Insanely Great (a history of the Macintosh), and, most recently, In the Plex, the definitive story of Google. He attended Temple University and has a master’s degree in literature from Penn State.

#ErdalArıkan #5G #polarcodes
#RenZhengfei #Huawei #ChineseGovernment #ZTE #DOJ #intellectualproperty #Cisco #Nortel
#stevenlevy #Wired

Chinese community groups sue RCMP for defamation over ‘police stations’ investigation
Two Montreal-area organizations and their director are seeking more than $4.9 million in damages. The allegations have cost them $3.2 million, including lost government funding.
#globalnews #Canada #News #Chinesegovernment #chinesepolicestations
https://globalnews.ca/news/10340226/chinese-community-groups-sue-rcmp-hidden-police-stations/

A cache of leaked Chinese hacking documents just confirmed experts' warnings about how compromised the US could be.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cache-leaked-chinese-hacking-documents-083355524.html
#security #hacking #chinesegovernment

Global News BC: ‘Appalling’: B.C. mayor unimpressed with Ottawa amid foreign meddling claim https://globalnews.ca/news/9919787/bc-mayor-criticism-ottawa-foreign-interference/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #PortCoquitlammayortargetedforeigninteference #Chinesepoliticalinterference #Chineseinterference #foreigninterference #portcoquitlammayor #Chinesegovernment #TwoMichaels #Politics #BradWest #Beijing #Canada #WeChat #World #CSIS

Global News BC: ‘I will not bend’: B.C. MP Jenny Kwan says she won’t allow China to erase history https://globalnews.ca/news/9744073/bc-mp-jenny-kwan-foreign-interference-china-erase-history/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #ChineseCommunistParty #Chineseinterference #foreigninterference #MemberOfParliament #Canada'sspyagency #Chinesegovernment #FederalGovernment #JennyKwan #Politics #Canada #B.C.MP #China

When I was young, I was told never to give out personal information to strangers online. Nobody thought the real danger would be apps that give away that personal information to the Chinese government.

#TikTok #ChineseGovernment #PersonalData
#software
#SocialMedia
#ChineseCommunistParty
#CCP
#TikTokBan
#PersonalInformation
#Data
#DataPrivacy
#privacy
#secrets
#information

For 22 years, #journalist Gulchehra Hoja has covered #stories of her homeland from #exile in the #UnitedStates . Now the Uyghur #journalist is sharing the toll that takes & all that she longs for, in a #memoir called A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs. She joins Piya Chattopadhyay to talk about her childhood, her family's #legacy of preserving #Uyghur #culture & #consequences they face for #SpeakingOut about the #ChineseGovernment 's treatment of Uyghurs
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6767170

#book

Kwan, a longtime #activist who has been #warning the #FederalGovernment for the better part of two decades about #ChineseGovernment #interference , both through his testimony to the parliamentary #ForeignAffairs committee & as a contributor to several reports, says #Ottawa needs to be careful the process doesn't cause #backlash against the #ChineseCommunity .

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6779785

#AsianMastodon #CanPoli #AntiAsian #Racism #Chinese #Asian #Canada #Canadian #diaspora #AntiRacism

Can someone explain why the #ChineseGovernment thinks #Taiwan belongs to them and while you're at it explain the occupation of #Tibet. Why does #China think it can say anything about what #Russia is doing in #Ukraine?

#chinesegovernment

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