The popularity of TikTok, a Chinese-owned video-sharing app, has prompted concerns among American politicians and proposals to ban the platform. While data exfiltration concerns are hard to allay, the costs of banning TikTok far outweigh any national security benefits. TikTok isn’t a particularly unique or valuable source of American data, but it is a powerful … Read more
The popularity of TikTok, a Chinese-owned short-form video-sharing app, has prompted concerns among American politicians and proposals to ban the platform. While data exfiltration concerns are hard to allay, the costs of banning TikTok far outweigh any national security benefits. TikTok isn’t a particularly unique or valuable source of American data, but it is a … Read more
which will be faster, more generalized and have more features. Snowflake is fast enough to stream YouTube videos, which previous versions couldn’t do. Snow storm In my chat with Serene, an Internet freedom activist and former Google Ideas engineer, I ask, “Can I talk to you right now? Legally?” They were both in the US, … Read more