Geopolitics

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TikTok has over 120 million users and growing in USA … what other Chinese app or game have over 100 million users in USA. Honest question, I’m curious.

I’ve been to China for business several times, so I’m not a fan of them mining consumer data all over the world.

This is a great question. I have purchased hundreds of Chinese-produced consumer goods from Chinese Amazon sellers and while I presume my deep data lies in Amazon’s Customer Relationship Management system, I’m not sure how much those sellers can access.

I know that many Chinese Amazon sellers, at minimum, get my e-mail because a few actively bribed me not to leave negative reviews during the pandemic. One Chinese air filter manufacturer even false flagged my Amazon account for “racism” and I had all reviews deleted (“community privileges suspended”) because noting their terrible product was Chinese was “racism.”

Also, American companies outsource more and more customer data management to India, the Philippines and jurisdictions that are presumably easier for foreign intelligence to compromise.

I’m not sure that ownership location within China materially increases the Chinese Communist Party’s American consumer surveillance capability. Vectors are prolific and poorly monitored.