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TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ Mac addresses until late last year

• davidcorbin 6y ago
  Real question is why does android allow access to a phones MAC address?
  • wutbrodo 6y ago
    If you read TFA: > TikTok appears to have exploited a known bug on Android to gather users’ MAC addresses,
  • Jonnax 6y ago
    There are WiFi scanning apps like this: [0], they allow you to scan nearby WiFi networks and their channels, plus do a subnet scan that gives you the Mac addresses of your phone but also other devices on your network. [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubnt.usurvey https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubnt.usurv...
• scraffa 6y ago
  If you have TikTok on your resume, I would never hire you.
  • e73637383 6y ago
    What a hero
• zaro 6y ago
  Is this the same BS scare like "Tiktok is collecting you clipboard data on iOS" and then later it turns out a lot of high profile apps are actually doing it? And even more important, there are plenty of analytics, crash report, tracking and I don't know what else third party services with their SDKs, usually doing the collection of data. I am juts not sure why are they never mentioned.
  • bartvk 6y ago
    It would be useful to make a comparison with, say, the top 100 Android apps. This whole issues has become politisized and I don't know who to believe.
    • zaro 6y ago
      Exactly!