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ok123456last Friday at 4:32 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, in some cases. Grindr is the most obvious one.


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derektanklast Friday at 4:43 PM

Okay, that's because Grindr users choose to publicly share their current location; that's the point of the app. Governments having an API that lets them access data that users publicly share seems substantively different from governments having access to private information, obtaining that information by subverting internal controls at TikTok and ByteDance intended to keep it private. I think anyone not arguing for arguments sake would acknowledge that

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