@fmhilton It's really no different if/when you have Meta/Facebook apps on you phone, ditto Snap, Google, even dating apps.
What we really need is a full on federal privacy law so companies stop this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/14/once-more-with-feeling-banning-tiktok-is-unconstitutional-wont-do-shit-to-deal-with-any-actual-threats/
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/07/tiktok-dances-into-court-slams-ban-as-unconstitutional/
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/19/the-us-banning-tiktok-would-play-right-into-chinas-hands-and-destroy-decades-of-us-work-on-promoting-an-open-internet/
Not to mention the ban also violates the First Amendment: https://theconversation.com/tiktok-law-threatening-a-ban-if-the-app-isnt-sold-raises-first-amendment-concerns-229879
"Banning TikTok won’t protect Americans from targeted misinformation or misuse of their personal data, which American data brokers routinely sell and share." Well said, Representative Sara Jacobs (D-CA) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jacobs?useskin=vector), as quoted by @mmasnick in https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/14/once-more-with-feeling-banning-tiktok-is-unconstitutional-wont-do-shit-to-deal-with-any-actual-threats/.
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