With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message.
The revised document details the U.S. joint venture’s conditions for using its service, including the specific location information it may collect.
Many users are also posting to social media about language found in the policy, which says that TikTok could collect sensitive information about its users, including their “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status.”
We used to be anonymous on the internet. We had screen names, didn’t show our faces or tell people where we lived.
This is what we get when sharing your face becomes the default.
I call it the sickness. You catch it from turning the lens onto yourself for too long. Once you have it, it’s terminal.
The sickness asks how will this play not what do you think?
And what happens is the difference between the lens the self and the audience begins to blur until you are no longer pretending anymore.