<story><title>TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.axios.com/tiktok-to-pull-out-of-hong-kong-e253eb02-69e9-4abb-a5c2-28ffa196a9a0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strogonoff</author><text>&amp;gt; Observers have said the new law forces companies doing business in Hong Kong to provide user data to the Chinese government as well as to comply with censorship requests.&lt;p&gt;This is striking, I have not heard of this interpretation of the new law before.&lt;p&gt;If that’s actually true, any global company (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.) that remains operating in HK can be assumed to be sharing private communication data&amp;#x2F;metadata with CCP, regardless of what its privacy policy says.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hker</author><text>Relevant reporting:&lt;p&gt;Hong Kong security law: Police handed power to do warrantless searches, freeze assets, intercept comms, control internet&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hongkongfp.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;breaking-hong-kong-security-law-police-handed-power-to-do-warrantless-searches-freeze-assets-intercept-comms-control-internet&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hongkongfp.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;breaking-hong-kong-securit...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Note that more details are just being released (and hence newer interpretation of the law, or at least part of it):&lt;p&gt;“On Monday night, the government gazetted the details of Article 43 of the controverisal legislation”.</text></comment>
<story><title>TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.axios.com/tiktok-to-pull-out-of-hong-kong-e253eb02-69e9-4abb-a5c2-28ffa196a9a0.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>strogonoff</author><text>&amp;gt; Observers have said the new law forces companies doing business in Hong Kong to provide user data to the Chinese government as well as to comply with censorship requests.&lt;p&gt;This is striking, I have not heard of this interpretation of the new law before.&lt;p&gt;If that’s actually true, any global company (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.) that remains operating in HK can be assumed to be sharing private communication data&amp;#x2F;metadata with CCP, regardless of what its privacy policy says.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gundmc</author><text>&amp;quot;Google, Facebook and Twitter Suspend Review of Hong Kong Requests for User Data&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;whatsapp-to-suspend-processing-law-enforcement-requests-for-user-data-in-hong-kong-11594034580&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;whatsapp-to-suspend-processing-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>