'The solution here is not to ban an individual company, but to actually protect Americans from this kind of egregious data harvesting that companies can do without your significant ability to say no,' RepAOC says of banning TikTok.
on Saturday posted her first video on the social media platform to make the case for shifting the focus to broad privacy protections for Americans.
its Big Tech competitors, Google, Meta, and Snap—claim to be concerned that ByteDance, the company behind the video-sharing platform, could share data with the Chinese government.that if really policymakers want to protect Americans from the surveillance capitalist business model also embraced by U.S.
Advocates of banning TikTok"say because of this egregious amount of data harvesting, we should ban this app," she explains."However, that doesn't really address the core of the issue, which is the fact that major social media companies are allowed to collect troves of deeply personal data about you that you don't know about without really any significant regulation whatsoever.
"Usually when the United States is proposing a very major move that has something to do with significant risk to national security, one of the first things that happens is that Congress receives a classified briefing," she notes, adding that no such event has happened."So why would we be proposing a ban regarding such a significant issue without being clued in on this at all? It just doesn't feel right to me.
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