Think twice before signing up for a TikTok competitor. I took a look at the types of data that popular social apps are collecting about you, and they aren't much better.

“Even if the U.S. bans TikTok specifically, Bytedance — the parent company — is already migrating users to a competing very similar app that it also owns called Lemon8,” Josh Constine of the venture capital firm SignalFire told CNN. “And so it wouldn’t solve the problem unless we basically ban all of ByteDance’s apps.”