Even The Government Doesn’t Practice What They Preach

Arittro
Studio 13 Magazine
Published in
3 min readMar 26, 2023

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If having the most prosperous economy in the world wasn’t enough, America want’s that title for data mining as well. Recently TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew, was grilled by the American government because of privacy concerns regarding the American population. Though this is definitely something interesting to talk about, I wanted to shift the focus to how even the biggest influences in society today don’t preach what they say. Chew, who rarely had a chance to speak at the hearing, said that American companies has a bad track record revolving around privacy and data. This goes to show that things are easier said than done. It’s better to 100% sure that you aren’t making the same mistake for which you’re calling someone out on.

The Perfect Example

This whole hearing felt like entitled parents sticking up for their kids who did it first. Sure, TikTok most definitely mines our data, but that's an industry standard at this point. In fact, 9 out of 10 Android apps share data with Google, you can’t stop it. To make things even better, the most trouble with data and privacy the US government had was with Facebook, who had personal data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, which they then used for political advertising. The country has too many internal issues they need to solve before going after a…

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