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.”
Yeah, I wonder what percentage of various generations would be able to explain who EFF is or what they do. As a for instance.
I’m glad to see that it’s fairly common to see people talking about/using things like a VPN, for instance, but…if you then “log in” to whatever brand for a “better experience”? Okay, you hid your traffic from your ISP but, not much else. All that data is flowing into that company(ies) servers, never to be deleted. If you trust that company as being “one of the good ones” right now, doesn’t mean it will stay that way. Look no further than something like Xitter - many people believed they were “good” (lol) before fElon’s takeover, most people sure don’t think so now. All that data you gave up is now his.