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> The idea that tiktok is spaying is pure nonsense with very little evidence. What tiktok is collecting is not more than what Google or Facebook is collecting a
by tomc1985 6y ago
> The idea that tiktok is spaying is pure nonsense with very little evidence. What tiktok is collecting is not more than what Google or Facebook is collecting and that information is not more valuable to China. The Chinese government is less likely to harm you than your own government with that data.
Then why was it caught spying on clipboard data? Remember the shenanigans that ensued just before this controversy blew up?
- yibg 6y agoBut then it turns out it's a common practice used by a lot of social media apps. The argument isn't that TikTok doesn't collect data, it's that it's not doing anything different / special compared to the other accepted apps.
- xster 6y agoIt was "caught" because that's the only one the consent manufacturers reported on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo Most of the apps in your home screen did it when the beta came out from NYTimes to Google News to Chrome to AccuWeather etc. TikTok shows a pop-up preview of the TikTok link you have in your clipboard when you open TikTok. It might be that, it might be more. But it's certainly not more special than other apps.