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Changes to TikTok's policies make it easier for the company to share users’ personal information with governments. TikTok did not respond to questions about the changes.

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago

Correct. It’s the same as the logic being destroying or hiding evidence (see: Epstein files). It’s because the evidence is exactly what you think it is, or worse. They aren’t keeping it from you because it’s not as bad as you think. So you can safely assume that it is.

This is more of a canary system, but a little different. Canary is where they constantly say “we’re not sharing your data” and then one day they remove that text. They’re not saying they are, but they’re not saying they’re not — and they used to.

Or it’s code wording. “Never say you’re fine, say you’re okay,” a family sets as a rule. So when they’re fine, when everything’s going well, they say in the group chat they’re okay. Then an aggressor demands one tell the rest they’re safe when they aren’t, so they say everything is fine and that sounds the alarm.

Cryptocommunication is fun.