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Under the US CLOUD Act, three letter agencies can compel Facebook to produce user data wherever in the world it is.

When any other country has a law like that, they are obviously the bad guys.

TikTok doesn't operate in China. All TikTok data is stored either in the USA or Singapore. There's a Dublin data center underway.

Douyin is the original TikTok. It operates exclusively in China and all it's data is in China.

Let's not forget a lot of the smear campaigns against TikTok were secretly funded by Facebook/Meta https://www.engadget.com/meta-targeted-victory-tiktok-smear-...

The Biometrics was collected for face overlays.

Want to look like a lion? They scan your face, use their algorithm to stretch the lion face on you, and because you're moving, it's a compute intense thing so done more in the cloud than on-device.

But as it's off device biometrics, it falls into the Illinois BIPA category (only focused biometrics law in the USA) so they collect consent up front.

Let's not forget OFAC lists, anti money laundering laws and FATCA requirements. These are driven primarily from the USA but the penalties are felt globally. Your employer likely has to get all your details to ensure you can get legally paid, otherwise they may be severely penalized.

Non-paywall version of article:

https://archive.ph/AyvrU

ByteDance, Alphabet, Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple

BANAMMA or NABAMMA

That's being encouraged by California law: either honor DNT or come up with something else: https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2020/07...

Yes, if the organizations are targeting consumers in the EEA (EU + a few extra countries). It's part of the reason why these companies are required to have an Article 27 EU Rep resident in the EU: to interact with regulators.

The three have a lot in common, with key differentiators e.g. the backbone connectivity of GCP is far different than that of AWS.

What worked for me is that I went deep into one of them, then uses this resource to 'map' what I learned on GCP to AWS: https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws (use the table mid way down the article), and this gave me a great framework on which to build my AWS knowledge.

A similar table exists for Azure (https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/azure)

https://www.mashed.com/66838/secret-history-breakfast/

and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258276062_English_B...

To ‘protect it from rain and road debris’ of course /s

Or let it ‘drop off’ on an area of private property with a video camera on it. See who comes looking for it.

So the obvious question then is should we be allowed place trackers in police cars, so we can track them on Waze (for example), and it would be a crime for them to remove it.

Equivalencies of Powers/Rights is a good thought experiment that would keep the powers of the enforcers from multiplying without limits.