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Compsognathus posted...

That's bad. But does it stop if TikTok gets sold to an American company, stopping the ban?

We need rules in place to stop that behavior and punishments in place to make it not worth doing it anyway. A blanket ban of Tiktok doesn't do that.

If it gets sold to an american company than the american legal system can take them to court over it. How would one legally force TikTok to stop using a keylogger as they are currently structured (without using a ban)?

Also, the bill isn't even a blanket tiktok ban. It gives the president the power to ban apps that pose a national security risk. Everyone keeps calling it a TikTok ban because it's easier to explain, but the problem is then you have all these people going "but why are they singling out TikTok?" when the bill isn't doing that at all.

EDIT: then there's also this:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68556540

Chinese companies are subject to a national security law requiring them to share data with the government on request.

TikTok has tried to reassure regulators that it has taken steps to ensure the data of its 150 million users in the US has been walled off from ByteDance employees in China.

However, an investigation by the Wall Street Journal in January found the system was still "porous", with data being unofficially shared between TikTok in the US and ByteDance in China. High-profile cases, including one incident where ByteDance employees in China accessed a journalist's data to track down their sources, have stoked concerns.

They're literally using data harvested to hunt down sources for news stories. In a country where the app itself is banned. AND in strict violation of the steps they took to assure the US this wasn't happening in the first place. People need to stop pretending like TikTok and Facebook are identical things.