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Interesting, it was literally exactly 10 years ago Anand announced his exit.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/8456/the-road-ahead

feels foreshadowing

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Amazing, thanks for this. Mind sharing more details? Would be very interested in info on prompts, how you iterated, etc.

Thank you!

The article is surprisingly flimsy on details and heavy on fact-obfuscation and reliance on anonymous sources. I’m left with the same level of uncertainty as I began with.

That kind of assumes Oracle is lying about the data they host and control for the US instance of TikTok, or that Oracle is unable to secure said data.

A few things are curious to me about all of this, which leads me to believe it’s political posturing.

The EU has a similar arrangement to the US in that they have an “auditor partner” and host the entirety of the EU infrastructure and services within the EU. The EU is not taking severe business actions in the shadow of undisclosed national security grounds.

There’s frequent statements about “massive data collection”. What data? I can only find IP addresses and volunteered contact information being collected. TikTok doesn’t have access to device location data, so IP addresses are the closest there is to geo location. TikTok has said they scrub that when stored - easy to verify.

TikTok has given their auditor (at least in the US) access to the recommendation engine algos. I assume that access comes with some ability to confirm what they audit is what’s actually in use, but haven’t seen reporting that confirms it.

And finally I don’t understand why so many politicians, including all presidential candidates and a not insignificant number of congressional members use TikTok.

Just some of the reasons I think this is more special interest/politically motivated rather than actual national security issues that would be any different than other socials.

Your statement about an excuse for bad tech is factually wrong.

The X edge teams were indeed responding to quite a number of well coordinated ddos attempts. Arelion, GTT, and a number of other carriers have been assisting in blackholing.

By CEO, let’s infer company, although I’m assuming you’re referring to Elon Musk specifically given his recent decision.

Yes, a company can ban devices from the office. Our companies do so in the offices working on sensitive matters. No phones, no devices with wireless capabilities, no cameras, etc.

More commonly, companies will ban unapproved devices from connecting to the company networks, but not their physical presence in the office.

It comes down to how guarded a company wants to be and their specific infosec policies and practices.

While this is an article from March, this has been going on for multiple years.

For a short time I reported some of them as “supporting terrorism” or “promotes violence” to get them to a human reviewer faster. Occasionally they were acted on, but YouTube has allowed these easy to find streams to flourish. YouTube even allows for the accounts to use “SpaceX” as the channel name.

Ok I’ll bite.

What are they doing in the US that would cause the company to be thrown in jail for life in China?

While it’s slowly been heading this direction for a while, for me LinkedIn has been really the last (mostly) decent place to maintain a professional network and share and explore interests. I think part of the reason is (most) people are not hiding behind pseudonyms, which (mostly) keeps things civil. I’ve stayed with them because it’s still biased to being a professional networking and employment site. Moves like this will have me cancelling premium quickly. I don’t want Facebook’dIn.

Except that the US operations for TikTok USDS are under the control and review of both a separate business unit, incorporated and independently run in the US, -and- Oracle. Oracle is signing their name to the data protections and controls and code reviews - all spelled out in the project Texas and USDS docs. I still pretty firmly believe this to be political theater, but it’s confusing given that it’s now alienating a large young but voter-age demographic and the thousands of small businesses that are built on TikTok. And it’s probably pissing off some 16 year olds too.

Agreed. It is rather alienating to a demographic and large numbers of business owners that both parties desperately want to connect with. I kind of think this will churn in the courts for a long time, and achieve only ill will.

This def needs more attention, and YouTube needs to make this configurable.

It’s been a topic of conversation at work this week, and several of my coworkers are YT Premium subs on the verge of cancelling.

Have a link to that 2020 robotaxi unveiling announcement by chance?

The general sentiment I’ve seen from those within Tesla explaining it is that FSD is “just” the marketing name, and it is a set of capabilities in beta under active development to achieve and improve on its full set of capabilities. What’s unusual is that it’s a paid beta costing as much as what I’d think a final version would, and the fact that in its current state it is required by law to require occupant attention and inputs. Elon Musk said he expects it to exit beta status somewhere in the 12.x train, which will tell us once and for what they define as “full self driving”. I’ve used a few times and in those limited cases it was definitely fully self driving (albeit not my driving style), with an occasional nag to touch the steering wheel. It was mildly disconcerting at times =)

Dang. RIP.

Rainbows End has a special place in my heart. As a teen a buddy and I used to explore the UCSD tunnels and labs at night and let our imaginations run wild about what we’d see.

Took some digging but here’s the data delete request form that should cover all the HR Tech sites including Indeed: https://requests.hrtechprivacy.com/create

Be sure to select “show more sites” in the sites selection.

And for Glassdoor, bottom of this page:

https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US

Took some digging but here’s the data delete request form that should cover all the HR Tech sites including Indeed: https://requests.hrtechprivacy.com/create

And for Glassdoor, bottom of this page:

https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest?language=en_US

Be sure to select “show more sites” in the sites selection.

Took some digging but here’s the form that should cover all the HR Tech sites including indeed. https://requests.hrtechprivacy.com/create

Be sure to select “show more sites” in the sites selection.

I was wondering what those were triggered by. I actually thought it was a shady attempt to get you to come back and engage. I got several soon after submitting my data deletion request.

Perhaps they are trying to reconstitute into something more like LinkedIn. Whatever the case, shady. Deleted my 15+ year old account and data. I always knew the reviews were garbage given that across 3 companies I’ve worked for there were concerted efforts to get employees to post positive reviews. We always knew “Glassdoor season” was coming when there were more “fun” events and all-hands and messages about “winning” the best places to work nonsense.

That’s super shady, and Glassdoor has lost its usefulness to me, so this easily nudged me to delete my account. Straightforward process can be started at the bottom of this page: https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest

That’s a comment about as useful and shallow as an opening commentary on The View.

Please share more data on your conclusions. Sounds like you have some deep insights on what data tiktok collects about users, how that data is given to CCP intelligence, how the CCP overcomes the controls Oracle and Tiktok USDS built, and how its recommendation engine differs substantially from the content and ad matching systems other social media sites or ad-tech companies use. Superficial repetitions of “tiktok bad because dopamine/CCP spies/cat videos” aren’t helpful. Data and specifics are helpful.

How is this done for all other social media sites? Is there anyone doing consolidated reporting of these “top lists”?

I see meta just confirmed removal of tooling that makes such reporting even more difficult. How is that overcome?

“the algorithm” was mentioned as being the real risk here and in several breathless mainstream media reports. The authors may be unaware that tiktok has opened the recommendation engine for inspection and code review by their USDS 3rd party assurance company, Ellison, Inc. Oracle also has deep introspection of the data moving in and out of tiktok in the US, per abundant reporting.

I’m not sure why several really important details of the entire technology parter and oversight program (aka project Texas) keeps being left out of the dialogue. It obfuscates motives.

I agree with Stamos, this is an opportunity to get data security right across all social media and internet services, not just shoot a likely losing shot at a single company with a hope for political points.

While you lost cred at “partially owned and controlled by the CCP”, I’ll bite. You seem to have knowledge that those at TikTok USDS (and TikTok Inc.) do not. Please share your data/sources on how the “CCP influences the content shown to American “zoomers””.

There’s a similar operational and data island for UK TikTok users as part of project Clover. Share your data on how the CCP is manipulating content shown to UK users while you’re at it.

At the end of the day, my opinion is that after all the changes made to segregate and protect US users this is now all political theater and posturing, and potentially setting a very dangerous precedent.

The cynic in me says they’ll tie it to Ukraine and Israel funding.

Rather quick observation that there’s clear borders at Hollywood, BH, and other affluent areas. Curious what some takeaways are. Gangs exist only where gang members live? No affluent people are in or run gangs? More/more effective policing in affluent areas? Less/less effective policing in less affluent areas?

I’m glad I’m not alone. I’m all for good design, and I believe there can be a great deal of “science” to good aesthetics in advertising, but, whoa. I literally can’t latch on to what allll of that is meant to achieve. Is this the mystical “high concept” my simple brain will never comprehend but drives my subconscious to influence my purchasing decisions?