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I'm not seeing any "spying" here. What the government is requesting is a audit capability, similar to what the FDA has for domestic food manufacturers.

The FDA can inspect food plants, and if in the public interest, shut them down temporarily.

Let me ask this, without this power how do you propose the government hold TikTok accountable for anything?

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The agreement would give feds ability to "Examine TikTok’s U.S. facilities, records, equipment and servers", which no doubt includes user data. So it's not like being able to audit a food manufacturer. It would be like also having the ability to find out which consumer ate every bite of of the food, their reactions, what meals it was part of, where they ate it, who they shared their food with etc.

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