Somehow these social media giants from the west would be allowed to collect crazy amount of data on their users, but tiktok would be deemed illegal. Yes. It’s

Somehow these social media giants from the west would be allowed to collect crazy amount of data on their users, but tiktok would be deemed illegal. Yes. It’s a separate issue. If there was a real concern for users privacy and safety this would've been taken care of awhile ago. Yes. The concern is over the entity exploiting the data, not the exploitation of data itself. All this is just war drums that try to seem like privacy concerns. It’s an explicitly political article that mentions China by name 7 times. ASPI is a defense & strategic policy thinktank. US corporate greed gave China a platform for world domination by offshoring everything. Now that the tiger is loose, us plebs need to go to war for them. The recommended actions are for governments & social media companies, not users or non policy making citizens.