A bit hypocritical since that's a tacit purpose for the existence of Facebook/Whatsapp, Google's... everything, and as we've come to discover, Twitter.
I still remember when the CIA's Total Information Awareness team was rebranded in the early 2000s and some of the members hired into Facebook, which coincided with the opening and expansion of Facebook as a global "social media" site.
It's wild that the news ever used to report on things like that. I suppose it did take a little longer to get rid of the journalists following 9/11.
Except that Facebook has paid a massive fine after they repeatedly violated the privacy of its users; and that was in the billions of dollars.
What TikTok has done is much worse that Facebook and it only makes total sense for the US regulators to give out a multi-billion dollar fine to TikTok, if it wants to continue to operate in the US.
There are no exceptions for large social networks with billions of users to get away with repeated privacy violations which TikTok has done.
Another interpretation is that Facebook purchased permission from the government to violate the rights and privacy of millions of people. It even spawned the creation of international policies like the GDPR.
They weren't told to dismantle the services they used that data to build, including their ad tech, so what really did they lose except time?
I still remember when the CIA's Total Information Awareness team was rebranded in the early 2000s and some of the members hired into Facebook, which coincided with the opening and expansion of Facebook as a global "social media" site.
It's wild that the news ever used to report on things like that. I suppose it did take a little longer to get rid of the journalists following 9/11.