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by schwartzworld 1188 days ago
Then we should set strict laws about what kinds of data apps can harvest from their users and hold all of them responsible, not just the ones from scary china.
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It is not the data collection but where the data is sent and how it is used. You cannot enforce US laws in China but in the US you can. If it was an EU company, relations are good enough to where US companies are being fined and paying billions to the EU with the understanding that similar free trade regulations can happen unlike with hostile China
This is still regulations the US can put in. The data has to be sent from the US.
But can be sent to china or im a recent case accessed by china dictated employees where they tracked down a US journalist using tiktok collected data.
It targets all foreign adversaries.