> Given the track record of Chinese companies and IP law they don't agree with, do you really expect them to honor privacy laws?

Since TikTok is storing the data on US soil (I believe that's something they've started), or if not, make them. Presumably they have or will have US presence in terms of personnel, money and so on.

If that is all true, which it should be, then it doesn't matter if you expect them to honor privacy laws. That's why laws have punishments. Apply fines, go arrest the people at their offices, confiscate their servers and so on.

It's so weird to me, that the logic is : They might not follow the law, let's not make it.