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No need. Most apps already collect a ton of data, and is sold to anyone who asks nicely. Which company owns a service won’t change that one bit.
The whole thing is election-year performative bullshit, while your data isn’t one iota safer.
They’d just buy the data like they do every other social media company.
This is performative bullshit. If they really really cared, they’d ban companies from collecting it in the first place.
Exactly.
No need for conspiracy or back doors. The only downside is ByteDance having to pay for data that they got as part of running the platform. Heck, they can probably even find a way to run control through shell corps or other means like being a big shareholder of some intermediate investment and nothing will change.
Their old asses don’t know that and no amount of explaining will help them understand.
This is more about pro-palenstinan content on TikTok than data.
This issue far predates the current outbreak of war in Gaza. It’s also about the CCP being able to directly feed propaganda to Americans.
(Only American companies are allowed.)
The national security argument is actually valid, but banning TikTok doesn’t resolve the core problem: that the data exists and is being sold everyday to basically anyone that can afford it, including the CCP, Russia, North Korea, Iran, ISIS, other people like ISIs, Domestic terrorists that pretend they’re not like ISOS, and dozens of organized crime groups.
I’m not sure but I think the issue is not so much what data is available and more how the data is served to users via the algorithm.
Imagine if it’s served in a way that intentionally makes users want to vote against their own interests.
That said, I have no idea what I’m talking about.
Not hard at all.
A code audit?
Terms of Sale:
Buyer agrees to sell user data to TT DataVacuum, LLC
Buyer agrees to install For You page algorithm updates per the requirements of TT DataVacuum, LLC on a quarterly basis.
Btw our lawyers are still setting up our new LLC with nominee directors. Dont worry, totally American.
