Thank you, I think I will

found on The Chive

I don't know about you but I'm perfectly happy to keep my secrets.

Key In Absentia

from here and here

If Kia and Hyundai can put an end to the Kia Challenge with a software update, the question I have is why didn't they do it sooner? You know, before people died.

Is that all your privacy is worth?

found on Acid Cow

Remember when people at least needed to be given a physical candy bar to give up their privacy (passwords). Privacy has really depreciated since then.

Be afraid Internet giants. Be very afraid

found on Imgflip

Collecting and storing huge amounts of data is a big liability for companies. Many have managed to escape most of the consequences so far, but that's not going to last forever. Some are going to learn the hard way, others may learn the lessons of their peers if they're smart enough.
 

It's gonna be YUGE

from here and here

It's hard not to come away from the "Clean Networks" idea and not think they're talking about some kind of firewall (though probably more like the Great Firewall of China than anything you can get at Best Buy), and with the demand for a transaction fee to allow China to comply with the other demands it's easy to make the association with Trump's past election promise of a border wall that Mexico would pay for.

Only America gets to have backdoors

from here

I may be dating myself here, but back in the day Oracle tried to market their software as "unbreakable". I don't think I need to tell you how that worked out for them. Now they're going to be looking for problems in someone else's code - good luck with that. Hopefully it works out better this time.

Of course the aim is to prevent Chinese backdoors, and this was all prompted by a government that keeps trying to add backdoors to things (they're obsessed with the back door, it seems). It all seems very self-serving, to be honest.

You forgot them laws like you've amnesia

from here and here

Since TikTok is basically a Chinese company, maybe they don't really care about privacy. Maybe the lip service they pay to privacy is nothing more than that. Maybe they have no intention of complying with the laws they're breaking.