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Comment by galoisgirl | Hacker News Reader

(Non-American too.)

China may not have been proven to use TikTok data specifically, but their track record about human rights and privacy is what it is.

> I'm not really sure what the People's Liberation Army will do with all my cat videos anyway...

Ah, the old "nothing to hide" argument.

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No, but really: Facebook collects very private data, including personal messages. Google has even more sensitive information. I also don't see why suddenly TikTok is such a concern, except for sinophobia or pure misinformation.

There's a large and substantial difference between "Google has your data" and "Google abuses your data".

You might have doubts whether the limits set by Western authorities on Google's use of your data would be effective, or about the ability of those authorities to investigate and enforce, but I think we can all agree the odds are much better than for TikTok where no chance exists at all.

Snowden showed 10 (!) years ago that american tech companies share data with the us government even when that's clearly against the law. That, in my book, is abusing my data. EU courts agree with me and are limiting how much data can be shared with us-based businesses.

This presumes people don't also have a problem with FB and/or Google. Speaking for myself I have concerns with all of them. I almost never interact with FB properties, Google I've sadly become attached to but I'm not one for Apple products so it is sort of hard to get away from the big G.

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