Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
The Internet has been colonized by spies who work for corporations and governments, but it's been going on for well over a decade, as this article notes:<p>> "By the time ByteDance was founded in Beijing in 2012, Google had been reading our emails over our shoulders, Amazon had been watching us shop, and Twitter and Facebook had been mediating our messages to friends and foes for years. Indeed, Zhang Yiming, the millennial software engineer who set up ByteDance, modeled himself and aspects of his new company on Silicon Valley. Zhang, who briefly worked for Microsoft before going out on his own, was once fond of quoting Steve Jobs and Jack Welch."<p>It would be highly surprising if the ByteDance-Beijing relationship was all that different from the Google/Verizon-Washington relationship (2013):<p><a href="https://www.corpwatch.org/article/verizon-and-google-helped-us-government-spy-reporters" rel="nofollow">https://www.corpwatch.org/article/verizon-and-google-helped-...</a><p>> "Technology companies willingly provided information to U.S. government agencies to help the Obama administration snoop on reporters from the Associated Press (AP) and Fox news in order to ostensibly crack down on leaks that pose a "threat" to national security."