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Rad_Dad6969 t1_j0z6ivz wrote

Lawmakers should have no say in what individual app is and isn't allowed. They vote on the security standards, and if apps don't meet those standards they are banned by default.

No double standards when it comes to data security. If other apps fail in the same way tiktok does, just aren't controlled by the Chinese state, they should be banned too.

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ss3423 t1_j0zjrmf wrote

Read the article. It's on government devices.

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Rad_Dad6969 t1_j0zm1wa wrote

Yeah I know, the standards aren't in place and that's a huge problem. I have more protections on my corpo phone than a city official does. We're begging to be hacked. Your town should not have even handed out phones without a solid security policy that outlines what data can and can't be collected, and the safety procedures that must be in place at a company before entrusting it with said data.

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wedontlikespaces t1_j0zm8mp wrote

Why shouldn't they be able to ban apps, it's their devices?

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Rad_Dad6969 t1_j0zter6 wrote

They shouldn't need to create separate legislation every time a security threat arises.

They can come up with as many extra reasons as they want, and they can vote to ban anything they want. That's not my issue.

My issue is that something is creating a threat to government devices. We should have teams in place to identify these threats and clear policy on how to proceed once an application is identified as a security risk. Instead, we're leaving the call up to politicians who are twice as corruptible as they are informed.

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