The Chinese and Trump's little boyfriends in Russia and North Korea have sophisticated software spy and disruption efforts. The Chinese embedded spyware in components used in servers. Their security cameras connect back to the homeland. Kaspersky anti virus is made by one of Putin's pals and was recently banned from sale in the US. TikTok faces a similar challenge for data collection. Temu looks like another problem outfit. Stranger danger.
Since you bring up TikTok and imply they're sharing data with China (which I'm not denying), why is this not an issue with every other major company that Tencent owns a large portion of?
Riot Games (100% ownership)
Epic Games (40% ownership)
Discord (38%)
Reddit
Riot games even requires a root level anti-cheat system that essentially has full access to the contents of your computer. Why is that not a data collection issue but TikTok is?