Why not advocate for general phone privacy laws? Why can't apps that require geo data use location then discard it? Why can't users decide? Because these laws

Why not advocate for general phone privacy laws? Why can't apps that require geo data use location then discard it? Why can't users decide? Because these laws don't care about privacy if American companies and government reap the data. I think TikTok is malware, and I think the reasons the US wants to ban it are self serving. Not how the RESTRICT act bans VPNs, for goodness sake. I am highly skeptical of government making a coherent privacy bill that isn't a backdoor to more domestic surveillance.