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EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
ACTION ALERT
Tell Congress Not to Ban TikTok
Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who is Collecting It
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Congress wants TikTok to find a new owner within the next
180 days or be banned until it does so. But the US
government has not justified silencing the speech of
Americans who use TikTok, nor has it justified the indirect
punishment of a forced sale.
The bill’s sponsors have argued that the amount of private
data available to and collected by the companies behind
TikTok and other applications — and in theory, shared with a
foreign government — makes them a national security threat.
But this bill won’t stop this data sharing. Instead, it will reduce
our rights online.
TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE TIKTOK BAN
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User data will still be collected by numerous platforms—possibly
even TikTok after a forced sale—and it will still be sold to data
brokers who can then sell it elsewhere, just as they do now.
What we need is a law that prohibits the collection of our data
in the first place.
Last year the courts even blocked TikTok ban from going into
effect in Montana, ruling that the law violated users’ and the
company's First Amendment rights. We shouldn’t waste time
arguing over another law that will get thrown out for silencing
the speech of millions of Americans. Congress should solve the
real problem of out-of-control privacy invasions by enacting
comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation.
We need your help to let them know.
act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-stop-the-tiktok-ban
Yours,
Jason Kelley
Activism Team
Electronic Frontier FoundationActivism | Impact Litigation | Technology
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