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Re:TikTok Spied on Forbes Journalists by Spooky23 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:06PM (#34100142)
This has attention right now because of the stupid political news cycle. The South Dakota governor wants to be Sarah Palin Jr.

The reality is lots of people sell this data. If you shut down tiktok, the Chinese will go buy it or otherwise obtain it from one of them.

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Re:TikTok Spied on Forbes Journalists by paulryanrogers on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:16PM (#34100268)
Which is why tracking and selling such data should be illegal.
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Re:TikTok Spied on Forbes Journalists by Spooky23 on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:06AM (#34105347)
Exactly. If TikTok can’t do it, Facebook shouldn’t either.
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Re:TikTok Spied on Forbes Journalists by bioemerl on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:51PM (#34100586)
The data really isn't the concern. It's a mild concern in long term as we have kids grow up to be presidents and their stupid stuff is on this media platform who can dig it up and blackmail with it.

The real concern is the ability to use the website as a propaganda outlet

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