I've brought this up as a flippant response to people worried about Tiktok sending their cat video preferences to China. Someone challenged me on it so I went looking for sources and all i could find was a couple of no-name "news" websites repeating the same information in the same words, but without any names or sources. So it sounds like BS. Before I consign it to the grave-yard of "Knowing half the shit the CIA has admitted too makes you sound insane", does anyone have any reputable sources for this?
So China gets to harvest Americans’ entertainment data to sell them more stuff in exchange for the CIA to spy on American citizens.
It’s an incredibly funny deal because Americans will shit their doodoo pants over China and TikTok while all they’re doing is making a buck off the American surveillance state.