JasoninHalifax wrote:
<tinfoil hat> the real reason that the administration wants to limit TikTok or force its sale to a US company isn't to prevent China from collecting data on Americans, but so the NSA/HHS/FBI (pick your acronym) can collect data on American users. They don't have their hooks in it now, which is why they missed the Tulsa rally attendance fiasco. </tinfoil hat>This is more or less what I said in post #15. My follow up about Messenger was intended to mean that there's no diff between what TikTok and Messenger collect....except who gets the data...
People were up in arms about the COVID app the gov't tried to launch - privacy, blah blah... read the T&C on Messenger before you install, it's horrifying what people give up... and if you don't believe it have a conversation in a room with a phone with Messenger installed in it... then, later, check FB on a completely different device and pay attention to the ads... it listens to everything.