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Extreme_light posted...

Good. But I'm kinda amused at certain 1A conservatives backing this.

Counterpoint... It's Tiktok.

then they should have banned facebook and a lot of other stuff a long time ago

hell facebook even gathers info on your phone contacts and they arent even using facebook

Errrm... I don't get the point of this comment. Do you think I wouldn't be in favor of banning facebook for doing the same thing or something?

That's most apps, though, to say nothing of the phone operating systems themselves. Pretty much every online-connected product or service you use today gathers some amount of data on you, to be sold to whoever will buy it. TikTok is particularly egregious about it, both in terms of the amount/nature of the data gathered and how insidious and aggressive it is (the app will actually alter its code to conceal how much data it's gathering if it detects that somebody is looking too closely at it), but I very highly doubt that's why the US government is taking umbrage to it. The US government is upset because they want more access to and control of said data than China is willing to give them. I can almost guarantee that if a US company made an identical app, nobody would be complaining (outside of the data security folks that currently complain about all social media because they understand the implications).

There is a massive world of difference between an app gathering data with your consent, an app gathering data and selling it to advertisers, and an app specifically designed to gather data for a foreign government without the knowledge or consent of the people utilizing it.

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