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.”
Freak out, they say, well that’s a interesting way of describing it. It sounds like a pretty good thing to freak out about. Maybe it’s not freaking out at all, maybe it’s reacting with a modicum of common sense at something that’s incredibly scary.