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How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

https://newrepublic.com/article/205956/americanized-tiktok-backdoor-ice-surveillance

#tiktok #socialmedia #ice

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11.02.2026 00:01
grimzworld (@grimzworld@mastodon.social)

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10.02.2026 23:59
remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)

"By housing TikTok’s data on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure—a firm whose multibillion-dollar existence is owed in part to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement contracts, and whose co-founder Larry Ellison recently bragged about AI ushering in an era where “citizens are on their best behavior”—the government has finally achieved its aim of securing the app by integrating it into its domestic surveillance dragnet. Considering the drive to secure TikTok was driven by fears of what the notoriously repressive nation of China might do with our private data, this outcome is, at the very least, highly ironic.

The technical wizardry of this surveillance relies on your Mobile Advertising ID, or MAID, a unique string of alphanumeric characters assigned to every smartphone. Every time an app, be it TikTok or a simple weather tracker, makes a bid to show you an advertisement, if your location services are enabled, it shares both your MAID and your precise GPS coordinates to thousands of private bidders. In the past, this metadata has been used by the Pentagon to identify targets.

Data brokers like Venntel and Babel Street harvest these “bid-stream” crumbs into massive, searchable oceans of movement. For ICE, this means they no longer need a wiretap; they can access a digital twin of your life, where your TikTok scrolling habits are pinned to a physical map of your home, workplace, and your child’s school or day care."

https://newrepublic.com/article/205956/americanized-tiktok-backdoor-ice-surveillance

#USA #SocialMedia #TikTok #Oracle #Surveillance #Censorship #ICE #Immigration #Trump

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10.02.2026 23:19
vivizine (@vivizine@ol2ol.com)

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10.02.2026 23:13
maik (@maik@norden.social)

Die EU-Kommission kritisiert #TikTok wegen unzureichendem Schutz vor süchtig machendem Design und fordert strengere Bildschirmzeitbegrenzungen, Pausen und nächtliche Sperren für alle Nutzer. Besonders gefährdet sieht sie Minderjährige. TikTok soll zudem das Empfehlungssystem und Benachrichtigungen anpassen. https://netzpolitik.org/2026/digital-services-act-eu-kommission-will-tiktok-nutzung-begrenzen/

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10.02.2026 23:12
kensbookinfo (@kensbookinfo@mastodon.social)

#Oxfordshire billionaire #TikTok owner loses $60bn since
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#7

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Witnesses tell court #Karachi mall fire started in artificial
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#Trump Quadruples Argentine Beef Import Quota Amid Ranchers’
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#Tanzania’s sky-high leap in mining impresses Burkinafaso
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Bill Would Mandate #Electronic Monitoring For #Homeless
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-states.html#3

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10.02.2026 23:09
Prgauthier (@Prgauthier@freefree.ps)

As she says, that brief time when Americans were banned from tiktok, the whole app was like this. Everyone was supportive, kind, positive, welcoming.

Americans are vile, hateful, toxic and ignorant. If someone created an app that blocked all Americans on the internet, they'd be the world's first and only ethical billionaire.

#Canada #latino #latinamerica #SnowLatinos #america #Americans #uspol #tiktok #WorldTok #DeathToAmerica

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