TikTok Privacy Concerns

Great.In the discussion about privacy we use tik tok to get our data, aren’t we?Great communist china welcome you. Heard of the leaky story of the firm lately and the FCC case.

I feel like this TikTok backlash is so overblown. I don't think TikTok is spying on US consumers/business, and I don't think TikTok is sharing any US private data with CCP... I believe this because there's no evidence to the contrary, and out of principle you shouldn't assume malintent.In fact, TikTok explicitly left Hong Kong because if they didn't they would have to share private data with CCP to comply with new laws... they're intentionally leaving MAU on

The stated issue is that TikTok may share American user data with China and that there’s not any real way for the US to prevent this possibility. So it’s seen as a national security issue that the Chinese govt could track Americans. TikTok has insisted that there’s no way that user data could be shared with the Chinese govt but I think US regulation bodies and intelligence do not buy it.

TikTok is front for the Chinese Govt to collect ALL user's data

Just don't use TikTok. The whole purpose of this app is to gather a huge amount of behavioral data (about various themes and topics and how you react to them), enabling China to do political message targetting on par with what Cambridge Analytica did.

Yes. Without question.There already been an investigation and review on this years ago [0] [1] and fast forward today, all we got was TikTok getting caught planning to track specific individual US citizens [2] another investigation into users being shown a distorted reality of two countries at war due to its 'magical' and 'amazing' recommendation algorithm [3], then collecting highly sensitive biometric, face and voice prints of US users; essentially identifying them which

TikTok is a Chinese company bringing in mountains of data on US citizens, including the ability to influence what people in the US see on a daily basis. The Chinese government would never sell that kind of leverage to anyone, let alone to Facebook, which is banned in China.

OK... What's the case for lesser or greater.Bear in mind that we don't really know much about how our data is being used at any of these, either directly by the company or by security agencies in their home countries. US security also has access to foreign citizens' FB & Google data via prism or its successors.The whole argument here seems (to me) to be [1] TikTok collects a scary and unjustifiable amount of data about its customers, just like youtube, FB Etc. [2] We don

What makes you think this is the only source of that information and that Google and others who also collect this information aren’t providing it to whomever discreetly pays for it? Why is TikTok different than say Zoom? What do you think “China” is going to do with the location of every 13 year old girl? Send targeted kill bots to do something a bomb can do better? Or does it just creep you out that someone other than Google, Facebook, Palantir, and their customers from around the world has

i think the issue here is doubts that tiktok isn't sharing some (or all) of it's data with prism/nsa or whatever the successor(s) is.