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> Singling out TikTok without addressing events like Cambridge Analytica with Facebook

They have addressed it, with the single largest FTC fine in history.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...

How is 7% of that one year's revenue meaningful? Facebook could pay that every year and still be extremely lucrative. So, no, it has not been addressed.

This is America, fines are how everything is addressed. Deepwater Horizon, Exxon Valdez, Facebook, you name it. We don't haul CEOs off to jail in this country.

Fines that are too small to change behavior are mostly worthless.

Where's the new laws protecting our data? We do more than just fine.

Two of the largest American global corporations (Google/FB) would have a much smaller bottom line if there were laws prohibiting the interchange of user data for marketing purposes.

There aren't any laws about that for the same reason that there aren't any laws addressing corporate tax loopholes.

I'm in awe that you linked to the FTC fine as evidence of our government taking action to protect our user data.

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