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 What I don't get about the whole TikTok spying on Americans argument is that why this is different than what Meta and Google et al does? I mean, can't China (which the accusation is directed at) just buy the data from any of the numerous data brokers anyway?

Norwegian investigative journalists have show how easy it is to piece together detailed info about random individuals from so-called anonymised tracking data you can just buy.

#Tracking #TikTok #Privacy #Meta #Google 
 Governments are lying to get what they want. 
 The US TikTok ban was basically engineered by Meta.