• trolololol@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Media definition of spyware for data privacy purposes is exactly that. The difference here is that this is a tool that can be leveraged to make a copy of all the data in your computer and put it on the cloud, among other things. Tik tok and Facebook can’t do that and are subject to much bigger scrutiny.