RedNote is based in China, which makes the app vulnerable to potential data and censorship requests.

Summary

Many Americans are migrating to RedNote, a Chinese-owned app based in China, raising significant privacy and security concerns.

Experts warn that RedNote, based in China, is subject to Chinese laws, including the Personal Information Protection Law and Data Security Law, which grant the government rights to request data and cooperation with intelligence operations.

Enforcement of these laws is often opaque. Analysts highlight risks of data collection, algorithm manipulation, and censorship on RedNote.

Critics argue the U.S. lacks comprehensive privacy laws, driving users to platforms like RedNote that may pose even greater risks than TikTok.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•5 months ago

    The US government doesn’t want us to see how well people are living in China off a mid income. How good their infrastructure is. How everyone is healthy and benefitting from their government instead of being repressed and used as a resource.

    • @[email protected]
      6•5 months ago

      How good their infrastructure is.

      and benefiting from their government instead of being repressed

      Had my there for a second. I thought you were being serious.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•5 months ago

          I’ve been to China a few times and while some of their infrastructure is amazing a lot isn’t good or safe. Don’t get me wrong though, each time I go to China the improvements to amenities and quality of life for locals always seems to be improving. Locals have to work hard to get what they get in life versus me in my western job doing 8-4 each day.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•5 months ago

            The fact that it’s improving at all makes it a better place than the US. At this rate america is going to look like mad max in a few years while the chinese chill under their vast solar arrays.

          • @[email protected]
            1•5 months ago

            You might as well be. You’re probably in one of our vassal countries if you’re still falling for US propaganda.

            • @[email protected]
              1•5 months ago

              I’m not falling for any US propaganda. Americans seem to think people outside the US see American news as trustworthy. When the reality is that we generally see it as biased at best and ludicrous the rest of the time.

    • @[email protected]
      7•5 months ago

      Stop spewing more Chinese propoganda. “Benefitting from their government instead of being repressed and used as a resource”. You’re talking about China here? A totalitarian government with absolute control over everything.

      Benefitting so much that they can’t even talk about politics or their own country’s dark history without being re-educated.