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Re:TikTok Collected US Users' Views on Gun Control, Abortion... by H8crilA on Saturday July 27, 2024 @04:02PM (#41088954)
I am really cheering for this recent TikTok crusade because there is a pretty good chance that corps like Google will get hit in the process. They, for example, surely have this kind of data, even if not explicitly materialized in some understandable scores.
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Re:TikTok Collected US Users' Views on Gun Control, Abortion... by WhatsName on Saturday July 27, 2024 @04:15PM (#41089037)
Ban or sale does not imply there is an issue with the practice of collecting that data. The issue is avaliabilty and the lack of leverage since it's a foreign entity to force access into the trove of data that is collected.

Ad networks and brokers not only collect, but sell this data and nobody is pointing their fingers at the big players [1]

[1] https://adint.cs.washington.edu/

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Re:TikTok Collected US Users' Views on Gun Control, Abortion... by H8crilA on Saturday July 27, 2024 @06:16PM (#41089715)
Why does it matter that it's a foreign entity? Do the local entities enjoy some form of democratic oversight, like for example the military or the police does?
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