What I don't get about the whole TikTok spying on Americans argument is that why this is different than what Meta and Google et al does? I mean, can't China (which the accusation is directed at) just buy the data from any of the numerous data brokers anyway?
Norwegian investigative journalists have show how easy it is to piece together detailed info about random individuals from so-called anonymised tracking data you can just buy.
Sure, but I think the fear is the #ccp pushing 💩dirty #disinformation ads a few days before an election directed to users in their zipcode, to like #dontworrybehappy 🥰 and vote #maga
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"Several political parties violate the privacy law by placing tracking cookies without consent, according to research by the NOS. For the BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), Forum voor Democratie (FvD), the SGP and Volt this is about obvious violations of the cookie and privacy law."
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