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Hotels.com and a host of others did the same thing, indicating that this is not particular nefarious. However we keep talking about TikTok. Why is that?
by chvid 6y ago
Hotels.com and a host of others did the same thing, indicating that this is not particular nefarious.
However we keep talking about TikTok.
Why is that?
- joosters 6y agoWhy should that mean its not nefarious? Just because other apps are doing underhand privacy invasion doesn't make it any better - they are all scum! Everyone is talking about TikTok because the video that went viral showed TikTok.
- swalsh 6y agoBecause Tik Tok takes data collection to a whole new level. It uses this, and every other trick in the book. And that matters because it's not clear that this data will be constrained to the activities of sending me extremely targeted advertising. Now we can have a reasonable debate about that, but this has a new level of concern. As a Chinese app, how do I know the Chinese government will not use me as an unknowing participant in a future cyberwar? One thing Tik Tok does is collect a pretty exhaustive list apps installed on my phone. That could be used for identifying vulnerabilities they could potentially exploit.