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So just like the majority of USAian apps out there? I think Temu fits right in. Why are people so concerned about what China is doing with their data, but not the very countries they live in or (more importantly) the dominant online surveillance presence: the USA?
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Believe it or not, I can be concerned about both.
The difference is, the place where I live has some data privacy regulations which actually get enforced, and I have some legal recourse against organizations which mishandle my data. China does not have such regulations and I do not have any recourse against organizations based there, so my risk from them is significantly higher.
Which apps do that? Because I am certain it's NOT the majority, and very skeptical about any other apps doing that.
More about the part about stealing information. Most people barely look at permissions.
or
All Temu had to do was ask and people would grant it.
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On modern Android, apps need to ask for each permission when they're about to use it for the first time. Not sure about Apple.
Google Play will also periodically revoque permissions to apps that haven't used them for some time.
I'm not sure I understand why this question comes up everytime some chinese app is in a news article.
Anyway, it should not come as a surprise, but "Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin", someone who works as AG for a state in the US, presumably is more interested in US interests than Chinese interests, and presumably places more trust in the government and businesses of the country he lives in than in the government (and businesses, for where there's a distinction anyway) of the country of his nation's economic rival.
One thing that's obvious here on Lemmy is that whataboutism works only in one direction. If an article is critical of China, Russia, Iran, or other dictatorships, you'd read, "But about U.S./EU/the West". But there are tons of articles here critical of Western countries, and it's accepted. Why is this? Just wumaos?
Why not use the English word for an entity that resides in the USA: American?
Because it's imperialist and racist to pretend that USA is America.
Because I find USAian more appropriate. USA isn't a representative of two entire continents.
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Oh so youre just a contrarian. Got it.
You do realize that license doesnt do anything, right? Facebook tier logic right there
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No they don't. It's not only not applied to their comment, but also misnamed.
Furthermore, its posted on lemmy, which that license overrides the license on the comment
That... depends.
Lemmy is just a carrier software, its license has nothing to do with comments.
Instances however, each have their own TOS and can enforce license controls.
Ideally, all comments should have a "license" field, so stuff like instances with ads on them, or subscription-only instances, or CC0/CC-BY only instances, could inform other instances of their rights, and avoid comments that don't meet their policies.