TikTok; Google; Your Data | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

From 2020, Bill Whitaker's report on TikTok; Steve Kroft's 2018 report on the power of Google; And also from 2018, Kroft's report on data protection.

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0:00 Introduction
0:10 TikTok
13:39 The Real Power of Google
27:14 Your Data

[dmac]

The one important point completely left out is the fact that the US has no comprehensive privacy laws that would prohibit what Tik Tok, Google, and Facebook do all the time, sell personal data to third parties without their knowledge or expressed consent for each and every time it is sold to data brokers. (The privacy act of 1974 only applies to governmental organizations and HIPA only applies to medical/healthcare providers)

[jonasga]

A few weeks ago I had a verbal conversation with a relative about buying new mattresses. Never searched online for a mattress in my life. A few days later my google news feed was jam packed with mattress ads. I notice stuff like this all the time. Google records every single word every human being says and uses it to target advertisements. It's mass scale felonious wiretapping.

[crankyanker]

They need to delete all the social media junk. Things were so different before myspace and Facebook

[SinaLaJuanaLewis]

The government isn't concerned with our privacy but theirs. The government does the same thing to us. This is why Instagram and Facebook have different agreements with the EU cause the laws are more severe.

[PaulJackino]

The irony. We're watching this on an app Google owns.

[RockoRango]

This was a major wakeup for me, as the entire school district in Ohio I grew up in was a “Google-Sponsored School”. We were taught using non-google products was dumb, and were forced to use chromebooks and chromeOS all the way until graduation.

[fallenfromadamharishon]

Funny how they always point the finger when they know damn well they all are working together!

[CB-pyzr]

Our own government does that to us already. If you are just now getting concerned after watching this video makes me concerned

[grss]

"We have strict data access transfer controls." Am I the only one who thinks this is quite the BS coming from a multinational company with offices around the world?

[eauneau]

Even if we had no TikTok, privacy would still be a fairy tale. Everyone who has a cellphone, regardless of what apps they think they’ve safely installed, everyone who has a Smart TV, an AI assistant (Google Home, Alexa, etc), who uses the internet (despite tasting a VPN), who has a video doorbell, who uses credit cards, who drives a car, who uses public transportation (buses, planes, trains, Ubers, Lyfts), who goes anywhere in public, can all forget about having privacy. It does not exist and hasn’t for a long time. If no one has exposed what you thought was private, it honestly probably just wasn’t interesting enough to expose.

[jamesd]

All of those innocent looking platforms are in fact a trap and what's scary is:
1) people have no idea.
2) still there are no privacy laws in US.
I worked for tech and I am very aware of the horrific evil these companies do. I don't have a single social media account and would strongly advice you to do the same. You have no idea what these guys do.

[kevinodell]

“Is Google a monopoly?” LOL, just Ask Jeeves.

[jnfe]

Very interesting that China's version of Tik Tok is about academics and other "creative" learning pieces of content, whereas in America it's about twerking & fighting and fully-grown adults engaging in prepubescent pranks.

[AwokenEntertainment]

the way the executives downplay what is going on is terrifying..

[Florencecoxx]

In china tiktok is more focus on education and building your life.

[sharongillesp]

How can we believe China is offering free expression and creativity in a country that doesn’t allow free expression and creativity?

[alins]

Should personal data be considered personal property and added to the 3rd amendment? Do we really believe our country isn't already collecting our information just like China? Add it to the 3rd and we'd all have to be compensated!

[Franklin-fbxp]

Our government does the sensor thing using so called " license plate data". Tracking keystrokes is what the FEDS do to read what you type. They can get your passwords using a Keystroke Logger.

[justincadle]

If it’s not Tik Tok, google, or Facebook, it will be someone else. The root of the issue must be addressed. No collection of personal data if the user opts out of it.

[ThePinonpete]

If you tell someone a secret, it's no longer a secret ! So ? If you don't want all your information to be known, keep it to your self !