Summary

Many Americans are migrating to RedNote, a Chinese-owned app based in China, raising significant privacy and security concerns.

Experts warn that RedNote, based in China, is subject to Chinese laws, including the Personal Information Protection Law and Data Security Law, which grant the government rights to request data and cooperation with intelligence operations.

Enforcement of these laws is often opaque. Analysts highlight risks of data collection, algorithm manipulation, and censorship on RedNote.

Critics argue the U.S. lacks comprehensive privacy laws, driving users to platforms like RedNote that may pose even greater risks than TikTok.

  • Filthmontane@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If all my data is for sale and China can just buy all my data from Meta, Amazon, Google, etc. Then why not just skip the middleman? At least if I give my data directly to the CCP, Zuckerberg won’t have access to it.

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      3 months ago

      In general those companies don’t sell data.

      It’s not in their best interest to sell data when they could instead sell ads using your data.

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    3 months ago

    I think the Chinese hackers inside american isp’s hardware etc are a way bigger risk…

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    3 months ago

    I doubt the Chinese are going to sell our information to insurance companies to raise our rates like every company in America

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    3 months ago

    Yeah. A ““security risk”” of all us fucking slaves realizing what a raw deal we’ve got.

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    3 months ago

    It is almost as though TiK Tok’s data collection was a symptom of unregulated data collection. If only there was some way to reduce the amount of data companies were allowed to collect. Oh well I guess we can just ban this one as well.

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    3 months ago

    No shit but Americans are god damn stupid and petulant morons that don’t think anything but being angry that one of their circus sideshow was being taken away from them.