So I recently heard news about this new restrict act issue going on in the US.
As far as I understand this act is a reaction to some allegations regarding tiktok and their legal obligation to turn user data to the Chinese government as such this new bill would allow government agencies, mainly the secretary of commerce, to have access to a user and app activities and content and, if they deemed it a threat to national security, to block or ban that particular service.
Most of the media seems focused on the banning tiktok part of the act. But in truth I think that it may give the US government another excuse to access and gather peoples private information and in the worst case scenario dictate on what they are and arent allowed to access.
Now Im not american, nor am I an expert in this topic so these may just be unfounded paranoia.
So what do you think should we be worried?
(I tried to add an archive link but wayback machine is broken, as soon as I can I will edit this post with a link to the article)
As far as I understand this act is a reaction to some allegations regarding tiktok and their legal obligation to turn user data to the Chinese government as such this new bill would allow government agencies, mainly the secretary of commerce, to have access to a user and app activities and content and, if they deemed it a threat to national security, to block or ban that particular service.
Most of the media seems focused on the banning tiktok part of the act. But in truth I think that it may give the US government another excuse to access and gather peoples private information and in the worst case scenario dictate on what they are and arent allowed to access.
Now Im not american, nor am I an expert in this topic so these may just be unfounded paranoia.
So what do you think should we be worried?
(I tried to add an archive link but wayback machine is broken, as soon as I can I will edit this post with a link to the article)