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I feel like the US would ban selling vital data to big enemies, and getting info from ByteDance is free.
The US doesn't ban selling data, though. China can buy whatever it wants just as easily as harvesting it from ByteDance.
And I'd hardly call running an entire social media enterprise "free". If it's a torjan horse, it's an entirely unnecessary one.
After a ton of alternating search queries, apparently both of these avenues are being used, and Biden announced working on such a ban in late February.
It's good the bare minimum is being implemented.... though it's weird how two months have passed without updates.
I must point out that this only concerns data being sold to Russia or China, ie, it's just security theater. I would like to see some restrictions on data being sold to anyone, including so-called US allies. Israel, in particular, collects data on American Palestinians who contact family back in Palestine and uses this to feed its AI that generates kill lists.
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