The debate surrounding TikTok’s future in the United States has dominated headlines.
The government argues that the app’s ties to foreign entities pose a significant threat to privacy and national security. Yet, my own experience with TikTok in the U.S. legal system reveals a glaring contradiction: while the government claims to protect privacy, it has failed to address privacy violations and misconduct within its own judicial system.
I was forced to appear as a pro se defendant in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding where
Judge Catherine Peek McEwen, a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States (JCUS), issued an expansive discovery order directed at TikTok (Doc. 780) to produce my private user data, including direct messages, metadata, and IP logs to her chambers within 24 hours.
The adversary proceeding completely violated my rights. DGP nor my ex-boyfriend had no legal ability or right to appear in the federal forum. I don’t have to prove anything. Every filing by DGP’s attorneys admits that they forum shopped a state case and conducted a warrantless search in aid of a criminal investigation, implicating all involved. Unfortunately our judicial system wants to keep its head in the sand.
If you want to skip my letter, the supporting evidence starts at page 13.
If members of our judiciary and congress believes in supporting our constitution and our guaranteed rights, they must stand by it and stop obliging to corporate interests over the interests of its citizens.