China mass mining data and brainwashing our youths right under our noses

Recent classified info uncovers the true extent of china’s part ownership of Tiktok and its data- along with how its being used to manipulate a whole generation.

How this this happen and what can be done? Lee Gema investigates…

After new regulations were put in place regarding how foreign companies with certain amounts of users in the USA have to be transparent with the amount of data they collect, as well as their reasoning for doing so- it was revealed that ByteDance, one of Tiktok partial owners have been harvesting more than 2X what they had publicly admitted to users.

Millions of teenagers (and adults) using the platform are having their name, age, gender, location, friends as well as frequently visited sites and locations, current location, place of work, sexual preference etc. Not only was Tiktok found to be harvesting data about the user, it was also found that Tiktok was engineering trends such as challenges and filters which scan and analyse facial features creating a giant database of every user. This comes as no surprise as china is well known for using advanced facial recognition technology to track and monitor its citizens.

“We don’t know exactly how long this has been going on for- nor how much information China has on the user base or what they plan to do with it, meaning that this is a critical threat to national security and we urge users to stop using the service and remove it from your devices.” – Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister

To some this comes as no surprise that the authoritarian province of China feels the need to monitor other nations as the country’s leader has been very open about his dreams (and plans) of China’s global domination- so could this be the first step towards global domination?