I'm referring to the incident where Beijing ByteDance employees accessed US data, even though ByteDance promised to not let non-US employees access the data. I've noticed lately that Chinese society and culture don't really care about conflict of interest. For example, it's not uncommon to hear Chinese citizens saying they trust the CCP because there's internal checks within the government to prevent abuse of power. But they do not acknowledge that these internal checks can be flawed because the government states that it's fair. Similarly, ByteDance says US data is safe because they have an internal team which audits which employees have access to the US data. But it seems like ByteDance leadership doesn't understand that this internal team is meaningless because it is under the control of ByteDance. And just says that their own guidelines prevent them from abusing the internal audits. Is there an actual cultural gap in how Chinese and American societies perceive and trust internal checks owned by first parties? Do they honestly believe that their internal check solutions are sufficient, or are they purposefully gaslighting the public? #tiktok #bytedance
It’s not much about beliefs, it’s mostly just negligence on security/privacy matters in general. The companies there do not get FB-like scrutiny because Chinese netizens grew up in an environment of rapid growth with little regulation and or lack of enforcement on any relevant laws that do exist. The companies and gov are profiting and have little benefit from educating the public on privacy and security concerns.
Hard to prosecute over seas
All companies’ developers have access to Prod data. What’s the issue?
Definitely culture difference. The struggle is real for US to trust bytedance and for bytedance to understand the difference in law and culture of work environment
Similarly, is it a cultural thing to get brainwashed by biased media then look for confirmation from "public"? "Similarly, ByteDance says US data is safe because they have an internal team which audits which employees have access to the US data. " Where does Bytedance say so?
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There’s a cultural difference, for sure.
Self proclaimed audits! 🤷♀️