22july2013

ITGUYINSD said:

22july2013 said:

TikTok is a threat, but not as big a threat as all the cameras and microphones that people put in their homes or outside their homes for uploading video and audio to the cloud. Many of these services upload their data to servers in China, and these servers are, by law, accessible to the Chinese Communist Party which is most likely collecting data on every person on earth.

Congress should mandate that all products which have optional upload services (including TikTok) come with product labels or daily pop-ups indicating their security and privacy concerns. Cigarette packages come with warnings, and here are a few similar warnings that would seem appropriate for webcams and always on home speakers:

WARNING: Foreign governments can legally use the images and audio you upload against you.
WARNING: Foreign governments are collecting data on you from this product without your permission.
WARNING: Foreign governments intend to use data collected by this device against you.
WARNING: This product's recording features could cause serious harm to your children including abduction.

With these warnings, the three complainants in this case would still be able to earn their income, but people will become better educated over time of the risks they are taking.

HAHAHA!   Walk outside in public much?  Drive around town much?  There are cameras EVERYWHERE recording where you are and what you do.  Facial recognition is checking you out.  Cameras read your license plate and record it along with your location.  Even police car cameras read every license plate and know who you are.

So, maybe those warnings should be on a sign inside your front door, warning you before going outside that you are at extreme risk of someone knowing where you are.

Most (but not all) home cameras have upload capability to the cloud, which is usually (but not always) in China, but street cameras tend to be owned by the government and they would usually be smart enough to know the security issue and would record to hard drives in their own country. Can you find a single example where a US government uploads its street video to China?

Your name says you are an IT GUY but you don't know this? Really?

wood1208 said:

USA, the great country to live in. Screw it for your benefit and law sides with you against the highest authority of country. Now I am confident, with Chinese political structure, China will be super power controlling world economy and no one will be able to challenge their military superiority.

I'm confused, when you say "China," are you supporting the people of China or the Chinese Communist Party dictators? I hope China prospers under a free people and democratic government. Do you agree or disagree with that sentiment?

TikTok is a threat, but not as big a threat as all the cameras and microphones that people put in their homes or outside their homes for uploading video and audio to the cloud. Many of these services upload their data to servers in China, and these servers are, by law, accessible to the Chinese Communist Party which is most likely collecting data on every person on earth.

Congress should mandate that all products which have optional upload services (including TikTok) come with product labels or daily pop-ups indicating their security and privacy concerns. Cigarette packages come with warnings, and here are a few similar warnings that would seem appropriate for webcams and always on home speakers:

WARNING: Foreign governments can legally use the images and audio you upload against you.
WARNING: Foreign governments are collecting data on you from this product without your permission.
WARNING: Foreign governments intend to use data collected by this device against you.
WARNING: This product's recording features could cause serious harm to your children including abduction.

With these warnings, the three complainants in this case would still be able to earn their income, but people will become better educated over time of the risks they are taking.

danvm said:

Also company #3 is, maybe, the most trusted brand in enterprises and business.  So maybe they are not as bad as you think.  

Are you a big fan of LinkedIn? Your favourite #3, Microsoft, bought LinkedIn in 2016, which is a company whose deceptive email practices were spawned in hell, but since Microsoft bought them up for $26 billion, the number of criminally deceptive emails I've got from LinkedIn has dropped quite a bit, for which I am eternally grateful to Microsoft, but hasn't hit zero. I'm glad Microsoft spent $26 billion to cut my serious spam problem by about 50%. I respect Microsoft for stopping the criminal behaviour coming out of subsidiaries that they own. But that doesn't mean I have to like them now.

Funny, I consider brands 2, 3, 4, 5, and especially 13 to have negative brand value, mostly because of their approaches to security and privacy. I avoid those brands, and anything they do (as much as I can.)

I would consider those brand names to be as much of a turnoff as these: https://www.trademarknow.com/blog/the-7-most-unfortunate-brand-names-ever-trademarked <--