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Meanwhile, the U.S. government has more or less refused to pass effective privacy regulation, seeing the surveillance-capitalism business model of the Silicon Valley as an economic juggernaut that, at least until recently, needed to be encouraged rather than reined in. It was thus American companies, with the support of American regulators, who laid the groundwork of the massive market for personal data China now participates in with apps like TikTok. 8/11