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ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:
@NanoBookReview
You're right that TikTok is a malignant, privacy-invasive operation. However, this isn't privacy legislation and won't preserve anyone's privacy online. Suggestion to not imagine a silver lining to this bill.The government has no interest in comprehensive privacy legislation, and in fact, an active interest in not pursuing it. The security services buy data from private dataminers for surveilling the populace, and politicians need invasive data practices to run their election campaigns. They don't like TikTok because they can't gain access to the output of ByteDance's surveillance of its users.
The previous attempt at legislatively pressuring ByteDance attempted to extort a price from TikTok in exchange for allowing it continued operation in the country - its conversion into a domestic mass surveillance tool under the control of state security and military agencies:
https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-cfius-draft-agreement-shows-spying-requests-1850759715