jsgohac@lemmy.mltoprivatelife - privacy, security, freedom advocacy@lemmy.ml•US is building a new Great Firewall [QZ]
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4 years agoreally sad read, weird digital form of Quigley’s decline of civilization stage where empire fears attack from outside threats.
Also, this is clown-world: “TikTok will either have to be sold to a US company such as Microsoft …”
Cook has gone so far as to call for tighter regulations on explicit user data sales, so likely not much there. Maybe in its ad platform aggregated data might be used.
The closest thing in that regard I could find was their mention of advertising sales in their quarterly report. Likely user data in some aggregated form is sold to sellers, like FB does
Here is one snippet on their ad efforts (from an unlinkable ad cancer adweek site):