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I believe that Facebook and Google collect more of my data than any other company in the world. And I know very well that they share all that data with US intel

I believe that Facebook and Google collect more of my data than any other company in the world. And I know very well that they share all that data with US intelligence, because that's what they are required to do. That said, I don't see any problem in using another countries' app that might be doing the same thing that bigger violators like FB and Google are already doing. And, notice, I live in the US. For people oversees I can guarantee that this sentiment is even more common.

babypuncher 5y ago
Who they are sharing it with shouldn't even matter. The act of covertly collecting it and giving users no real recourse is the problem, and what we should regulate. Turn the social networks into dumb feeds driven by explicit user choices rather than algorithms. Solve that problem, and you solve the TikTok problem. But people don't want to talk about that. They want to ban the platforms they perceive as being used to push an opposing political agenda while preserving the platforms they themselves abuse for the same purpose. It is almost funny seeing people who directly benefited from Cambridge Analytica/Facebook turn around and complain about TikTok.