Ehhhhh idk about that, reverse engineering efforts have found that it collects a lot more than other apps. Lots of seemingly unnecessary stuff.
Also, there’s the whole thing with it burrowing in your internal files whether you delete it or not so it can continue collecting data after you uninstall, among with other suspicious (and strangely sophisticated) behaviors.
Also, it’s bipartisan so I don’t see where the “performative bullshit” is, it’s genuinely a really well written virus that everyone willingly has installed on their phones, controlled by a country who’s actively an openly a surveillance state. Not to mention the mental health implications; they don’t even let their own citizens use it for more than an hour a day.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
You correctly answered OP’s question. But the question was irrelevant to begin with. The ban on TikTok has nothing to do with data collection. It’s about controlling potential sources of foreign interference: controlling what is said or how platforms (pick and choose what to) broadcast what people are saying.