While many questions arise regarding DeepSeek’s performance, another critical question is whether the data it collects goes straight to Xi and his Commie overlords.
You know, what Congress suspected was happening with TikTok.
Well, here are a few excerpts from DeepSeek’s Privacy Policy.
“(DeepSeek) is provided and controlled by Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., and Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., with their registered addresses in China…
“The personal information we collect from you may be stored on a server located outside of the country where you live. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China.
“Where we transfer any personal information out of the country where you live, including for one or more of the purposes as set out in this Policy, we will do so in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws.”
If your humor has evolved to a point where the very idea of an IPVM account on TikTok amuses you—and if my use of the word “evolved” amuses you further—then perhaps Bredemarket offers the background and experience to help you convey your
I am VERY familiar with questions regarding the nationality of a company. There are three questions:
Where is it incorporated?
Where is it headquartered?
Who owns it?
IDEMIA
For my former employer IDEMIA, the answers are France, France, and primarily a U.S. investor (Advent International).
(So depending upon your needs, you can argue that IDEMIA is a French company or a U.S. company.)
ByteDance
For ByteDance, the answers are the Cayman Islands, China (Beijing), and primarily global investors (Blackrock, General Atlantic, Susquehanna International Group, etc.).
(So depending upon your needs, you can argue that ByteDance is a Chinese company, a mostly American company, or a British company off the coast of Cuba.)
Your company
Not that I create TikTok videos (at least not for paying clients), but I provide other services.
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By Friday evening, we learned that TikTok may “go dark” on Sunday rather than risk prosecution.
By Saturday morning, we learned that incoming President Trump may give ByteDance another 90 days to sell TikTok.
The chatter in recent days has speculated that Elon Musk may buy TikTok, or that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta may buy TikTok. (Both men were slated to attend Trump’s inauguration, although that may have changed since the festivities have moved indoors.)
“Perplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance, to create a new merged entity combining Perplexity, TikTok U.S. and new capital partners, CNBC has learned.”
“President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview Saturday that he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the U.S. after he takes office Monday.
“Trump said he hadn’t made a final decision but was considering a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline for TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell to a non-Chinese-buyer or face a U.S. ban.”
Trump’s announced intention to possibly grant ByteDance a 90 day extension to sell TikTok means nothing until something actually happens. But it’s somewhat more likely than Liz Cheney in jail. Or the post-inauguration Trump tariffs.
And Trump (or, for that matter, Biden) has the power to grant such an extension.
“A 90-day extension under specific conditions is explicitly allowed for in the bipartisan law passed last year.”
But think about it.
Congress deemed ByteDance ownership of TikTok as a national security threat.
The Supreme Court agreed that Congress acted in accordance with the Constitution (I.e. the First Amendment) in making that determination.
In a show of unity, Biden and Trump decided, “Never mind.”
Good old Emily.
In the political world, deadlines are but a dream.
“(TikTok) said ‘both the Biden White House and the Department of Justice have failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance to the service providers that are integral to maintaining TikTok’s availability’.
“It said unless the government immediately stepped in to assure the video app it would not be punished for violating the looming ban, it would be ‘forced to go dark on January 19’.”
In any large organization, the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.
On the morning of January 17—which mathematically inclined individuals know is 2 days before January 19, the potential de-Tik Tok day—a message on my personal Facebook feed encouraged me to feature my TikTok presence on my Bredemarket Facebook page.
Perhaps this is just a cruel joke. What if I were to do this and the link broke? “Shoulda stayed on Facebook, not that wimpy service.”
But it’s still mystifying that some Meta employee thought it was a good idea to risk diverting traffic to a non-Meta property.
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