The law to ban tiktok was passed because the Chinese government has direct control over the content shown to users.
All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok ("Everyone does it so why focus on tiktok?!"). It's still a threat, I'm not trying to minimize it, but tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.
All the talk about privacy and data collection were mostly to muddy the waters by bringing in all tech to the conversion, and divert attention from solely tiktok ("Everyone does it so why focus on tiktok?!"). It's still a threat, I'm not trying to minimize it, but tiktok was banned primarily because of who controls the content delivered, not who is collecting the data.