TTP - Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military (www.techtransparencyproject.org)

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Millions of Americans have downloaded apps that secretly route their internet traffic through Chinese companies, according to an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), including several that were recently owned by a sanctioned firm with links to China’s military.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Please stop with these useless articles. Yes, every world power likes gathering metadata. And no, USA is not a "better place" for metadata gathering.

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