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TikTok (and Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp (if they are really spying on our private WhatsApp conversations) knows I (my IP addresses/my device identifiers/my brow
by MuffinFlavored 3y ago
TikTok (and Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp (if they are really spying on our private WhatsApp conversations) knows I (my IP addresses/my device identifiers/my browser fingerprints) like memes.
I don't get the big deal?
They know my age and where I live, which is public information via sites indexed by Google for a large percentage of the population.
My phone knows where I go due to GPS + cell phone towers. This is published via a "location service" to every app asking for it (and given permission) on my phone.
Apple knows what I like because they run the operating system for both my phone and my laptop. Do they have some form of telemetry? Probably.
Google knows what I like because I use their browser and they run my Gmail/other services I use from them. Do they have some form of telemetry? Probably.
How is this a TikTok problem?
- duxup 3y agoGenerally speaking: How is it not all those companies problems ... including TikTok? Are you just trying to hand wave for TikTok here? As for the article, the situation in the article is very specific to that person.
- MuffinFlavored 3y ago> The story claimed ByteDance employees accessed two reporters’ data through their TikTok accounts. Personal information, including their physical locations, had been used as part of an attempt to find the writers’ sources, after a series of damaging stories about ByteDance They got her location. What else?
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoThis is a TikTok problem because China gets access to the data, not the US. There's some serious mental gymnastics and reality denial required to limit the issues to "TikTok". Someone else won a race, so now they need to tilt the field.