American politics is a charade.

The rich are running jokes on the people telling them whom to hate and what to think to distract from the real problem avoid real change.

Tiktok does just about the same thing that internet giants like google, facebook or even apple are doing. Google scans all your email attachments and reads all your emails. Facebook scans all your msg and images. Apple recently activated mandatory facial and body scanning on all photos.

The only reason Tiktok is in the news is because it is made by a foreign adversary. A hostile nation. Bytedance, the company running Tiktok is majority owned by the Chinese military.

But the real problem, that NOBODY is talking about is the lack of privacy and data protection for web.

If the US government would pass laws protecting the data and privacy of its citizen, then there would be no problem to begin with. If the apps are not allowed to access critical device and personal information automatically to begin with, no apps could be spy on you to begin with.

But then the government could not mass surveil its citizens anymore.

The argument that criminals or terrorists could use those privacy loopholes to commit crimes is a hoax.

They ALREADY use their own hardware with their own operating systems.

Mass surveillance is per definition for the masses, which means its citizens. It never was about criminals to begin with.

Fix those damn privacy laws and pass data protection laws to give EVERYBODY privacy, instead of those the criminals and terrorists.

End exploitive data mining and privacy abuse and increase privacy protection, so internet giants can't force consumes to agree to mandatory data sharing to use their service.