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US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues (arstechnica.com)
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[–] finitebanjo 8 points 2 months ago

Or they just route the sale of traffic through a domestic data broker and buy “analysis” on the Chinese side of the legal fence. There are so many badly policed and underregulated aspects of the data business that this shit never amounts to more than publicity stunts.

That is literally what Facebook was fined for, BEFORE the new laws were put in place. Cambridge Analytica did what you just described.