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The entire problem is that the US lacks even the most basic privacy laws.

The thing is, it seems some people want to allow US companies to abuse people's data, but not Chinese companies doing the exact same thing.

That is, the aim of this legislation is purely strategic and has nothing to do with privacy.

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The US has privacy enshrined in the highest law of the land, the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. The problem is that the courts have eroded the meaning and allowed loopholes in the name of "national security", which itself is a term that has been perverted.

> The entire problem is that the US lacks even the most basic privacy laws.

Probably because we never needed to.

There hasn't been a major Internet company being used by western citizens until TikTok.

The US government has been able get data whenever it wants it from the major tech companies because they've all been in the US - and there's been no reason to worry these companies are giving US data to foreign (especially non-friendly) governments.

China isn't the reason the US needs basic privacy laws.

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