Friendly reminder that US companies collecting data, and TikTok collecting data, are apples and oranges

US companies don't like giving away their data to the government without legal orders, US companies just wanna make a quick buck, so giving your data away for free to the gov doesn't benefit them, and there is a fair bit of protection for you, the consumer, not enough protection, but some

In contrast, the Chinese government has the right to all of their companies data, and they couldn't care less about protecting you, in fact, it is not far fetched to say that one of china's highest priorities is the destabilization of the West

Tiktoks data harvesting is egregious to the point where it has the capability that if you give it location permission once, it can permanently track you 24/7 even when the app is closed, and it can also randomly track your keystrokes in other applications to steal log in info and passwords to any of your accounts, and tiktok can randomly save whatever you currently have on your clipboard or any basic note/document applications you have on your phone (again, when the app isn't even open), and on top of all that, when it sends your data, most of it is sent using http instead of https, meaning it's unsecured, meaning ANYONE could access the data TikTok has on you

If it is on a government officials device, it is literally a national security threat

If it's on your device, well honestly who fucking knows what they're doing with all your info