This is the heart of the political struggle. Most commenters mention the privacy part, which is valid, but the real meat is the war of nations over data. RESTRICT act or whatever it’s called to ban TikTok because all the congressional members’ grandkids are hooked on it and could care less about their grandparents. Data tracking is already taking place. Your personal data is out there already. When you search for butt cream and then go browse Facebook, they know what you searched for. It’s not that they are reading your browser history, instead they are reading your web logs from some 3rd party tracker server.