It’s all posturing

https://lemmy.ml/post/1788503

It’s all posturing - Lemmy

The key difference is that American Government agencies don’t have access to the information TikTok steals from its users.
This is naive. America has all the laws they need to get data from private companies, just the same as China
Sure, but there’s a difference between having the potential to do something, and actively doing it. I’m aware the FBI/CIA can get my data from Google if they want it, but something would have to trigger them into wanting to investigate me. With a Chinese company there is no “if”, all of the data goes straight to the CCP. Tencent, the bloated multimedia company, even had a moment of ironic hypocrisy where they didn’t want to give away all of their users’ data.

You’re kidding me? The US and UK governments have literally that

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

PRISM - Wikipedia

You should probably read your own links. It only reinforces what I said. Also, I’m thankfully not American.

I assume you’re referring to the fact that it claims to be based on court orders

I suggest you look into what the FISA court counts as oversight