- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.
US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.
I may be in the minority here. I think silencing CNN Business might be a good thing.
Or at least ending any pretense of it being a reliable source for anything involving US corporations and their competitors.