Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 20, 2023
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...

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Show threadHughster
@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.
Mar 20, 2023 at 9:23pmWeb
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