If we agree that that's bad, why do we allow Facebook to do it? Why not craft a ban on the bad behavior, which would then necessarily also preclude Tiktok from doing it?
Why wouldn't it be? TikTok is now a US company with the data of US citizens stored in Austin TX.
https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about
https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-myths-vs-facts
This is actually insane, the level of paranoia surrounding ByteDance has forced TikTok to jump through a billion hoops that no other foreign company has to and weirder still they did. Like my HIPAA is less protected than this.
> Myth: Under its 2017 National Intelligence law, the Chinese government can compel ByteDance to share American TikTok user data.
> Fact: TikTok Inc., which offers the TikTok app in the United States, is incorporated in California and Delaware, and is subject to U.S. laws and regulations governing privacy and data security. Under Project Texas, all protected U.S. data will be stored exclusively in the U.S. and under the control of the U.S.-led security team. This eliminates the concern that some have shared that TikTok US user data could be subject to Chinese law.
TitTok is not a small company.
Not sure if I would agree. A friend works there and he's the only English speaking and Caucasian.
The unspoken truth is that TikTok is doing the same shady things as Facebook, but the government doesn't want to ban or regulate Facebook, so a special law has to be crafted to target TikTok.
We shouldn't.
They are starting to make AI personas to interact with teenagers.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbot-younger-users-da...
This should almost certainly be banned. I'm not sure on what legal grounds but I am sure this is bad.