[_8j50]

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

[8note]

This is still regulations the US can put in. The data has to be sent from the US.

[_8j50]

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.