TikTok sues the US government over banlocked

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TikTok sues the US government over ban
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TikTok is taking the US government to court.

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We're talking about individuals' personal data stored by social media companies being accessible to others (governments, in this case). This has nothing to do with social security.

The problem is that the data is accessable, but that's not being addressed. This is an improper fix to an actual problem, just facts.

When signing up for a tik-tok account, I put in a birth date, a username, an email address for verifcation and that was it. I didn't need to provide a drivers license, verify that the name I put in was my actual name, that the birth date was my actual birth date. Location isn't allowed nor was it requested and neither was Nearby devices. It's actually been a much better behaved application than any American social media app.

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