The US government pushed to ban TikTok citing national security concerns about Chinese data collection. Critics point out that US companies like Meta and Google collect identical or more extensive data on American users, share it with advertisers, and have been caught providing it to law enforcement without warrants. The RESTRICT Act proposed to address TikTok would grant sweeping surveillance powers far beyond the app. Former NSA Director Keith Alexander sits on the board of Amazon, which collects vast amounts of user data. The real concern appears to be a foreign government having data access that the US government wants to control.