Electronic Frontier Foundation
Worried about TikTok? Then pass comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation. By reducing the massive stores of personal data collected by all businesses, we will reduce opportunities for all governments to buy or steal this data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/government-hasnt-justified-tiktok-ban
Government Hasn't Justified a TikTok Ban

Freedom of speech and association include the right to choose one’s communication technologies. Politicians shouldn’t be able to tell you what to say, where to say it, or who to say it to.So we are troubled by growing demands in the United States for restrictions on TikTok, a technology that many...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mar 20, 2023 at 5:59pmWeb
Show threadVideo Processing WikiMar 20, 2023
@eff
They only care about Chinese Government control of Tiktok. US control of facebook or twitter is fine.
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Mar 21, 2023
@PythonLinks bingo. Why're we tolerating the US ones while singling out the Chinese ones? Both are equally untrustworthy, both are tied to gov't surveillance, both are exploitative (arguably, the US ones are even more insidious). @eff
Show threadHughsterMar 20, 2023
@eff The specific problem with TikTok is national security—personal data of millions of mostly younger citizens of western countries going straight to a hostile totalitarian state well known for exploiting such data to undermine opposition—not data privacy per se.
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Mar 21, 2023
@hughster similar data privacy exploitation is being undertaken by US social media corporations, whose data is also actively and routinely mined by US gov't agencies. They're *all* to be shunned. @eff
Show threadChris J. KarrMar 20, 2023
@eff There's not a big enough Boost Button for this advice.
Show threadWJJHMar 21, 2023
@eff There is not much justification to ban TikTok, but this fits the narrative by the US government. A most useful part of the greater power competition between the US and China, of course in the name of national security. There is another information collective tool what is more concerning, it’s called the NSA!