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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by rglullis on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:41PM (#31922557)
> laws in place that prevent such a change from occurring.

Haven't you learned anything from Snowden?

> You just need laws around who can do it, can for what reasons.

You just make illegal to use personal data for any other thing that is not the service being directly provided to the customer.

Personalized ads? Tracking cookies? Ad bids? Make all these illegal and the collection of data will stop being profitable. Stop making it profitable, and companies will no longer be interested in doing.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by throwaway29812 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:24PM (#31924608)
We are talking about private industry working together with governments. The US has no intention nor legal ability to force private industry to work with them, outside of when they choose to.

Unless a new patriot act comes along, which is highly unlikely to pass in 2022.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by rglullis on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:33PM (#31927059)
No. We are talking about companies with way too much power in their hands and that might use it for nefarious purposes {for,against,with,without,despite} the government.
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