TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer to shut down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S., four sources said.
The executive order is specifically targeting data brokerage, a practice that is shockingly unregulated. There is no federal law that oversees the collection of and sale of the most intimate details of our lives. And when data is sold to countries of concern, it can become a national security issue.
It’s good the bare minimum is being implemented… though it’s weird how two months have passed without updates.
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.
“but job loss!1!”