I appreciate your energy and agree with you.

Achievemnet unlocked: Change someone's mind in the positive on social media

Plus 2000 XP

Like I said, it's not that what tik tok has access to is any more alarming or different than other applications. It is that plus the fact that reports have shown a clear lack of transparency in where and how the data is stored, and whom has access to it. That doesn't negate the existence of the threat you are simply saying "its not new".

The fact that a Chinese company owns it, is obviously where the concern comes in and I am failing to see how that equates to racism. Not only is Chinese influence bad for the western world and our way of life, but they have demonstrated time and time again they do not play by the rules. Hafnium, wawei, etc. etc. So while I agree with you that a GPDR is in order do you really anticipate the Chinese to honor those laws and boundaries? When have they ever? International patents mean nothing to them. They are a safe haven for corporate espionage and labor crimes.

As far as technical illiteracy I think its evident given the very in depth analysis congress did on the security of data management at facebook (satire), that the government is far removed from having the wherewithal to accurately evaluate the threat. That doesn't mean it isnt there. That doesn't mean it should be ignored.

Nobody is saying ban tiktok because it has a owner of Chinese decent. They are saying ban tik tok because it presents a very real data collection and security threat and is owned by a company outside our jurisdiction in a country that has a record of not taking security or privacy concerns seriously.

If bytedance wants to be in the US market they should have to play by our rules. They supposedly were, but have been caught blurring those lines.

Ban it.

The fact you are cleary in the IT industry and so unaware of the information that tik tok has access to during run time is a bit concerning.

Plain and simple you are wrong. The application has permissions to full hard drive scans, contacts, see other running applications (potentially harvesting data from them), and most concerning clip board data while running. If you use any sort of password saver on AndroidOS, your password is in your clipboard and thus could be compromised.

They also petitioned to collect biometric data in the US, and can presumably have access to finger print data and use images for facial recognition. (Not by any means something tik tok only does)

Add that with the repot from the engineers working for the Tik Tok US corporate branch and the clear lack of understanding and transparency on what data stays in the US and what can be shared with the larger corporation based in China and there in lies the security concern.

Racism has no play here and is a far leap from reality. A distraction from the situation at hand.

Educate yourself mate, the claim isn't ridiculous at all but your false sense of security sure is.

https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/tiktok-data-access-china-us

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/03/tiktok-just-gave-itself-permission-to-collect-biometric-data-on-u-s-users-including-faceprints-and-voiceprints/

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-data-privacy

https://www.triaxiomsecurity.com/tiktok-security-implications/

https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-protection/understanding-information-tiktok-gathers-and-stores#:~:text=On%20Android%2C%20the%20app%20has,that%20TikTok%20abuses%20this%20ability.

"Without any evidence "....

Clearly too lazy to read the article

We don't care what the rest of the world does.

This simply isn't true.