The latest development in the US case took place on Friday, when the DOJ submitted a filing asking the court to dismiss the Bytedance call to rule the threatened ban unconstitutional. Engadgetreports that the company is now accused of collecting data on user views on a range of sensitive topic...
The Journal’s analysis was limited to examining what TikTok collects when freshly installed on a user’s device, before the user creates an account and accepts the app’s terms of service. Apart from the MAC address, the Journal’s testing showed that TikTok wasn’t collecting an...
TikTokrecently updated itsprivacy policy pagewith a new 'Image and Audio Information'section. Among other things, it reveals that TikTok can now collect biometric data from its users. And, for some reason, TikTok hasn't said why it needs this data or what it plans on using it for. Since ...
Data privacy is basically a concern of every living being that is on the internet. The latest updates regarding the end of cookies, third-party data collection and GDPR regulations has brought even more visibility to privacy concerns. Businesses need to be very careful when collecting users’ dat...
TikTok has always denied collecting data for China and made a point of distancing itself from ByteDance, but this could easily fuel suspicions even if the data is used only for advertising and other business purposes. There are already calls for action, too. Senator Josh Hawley, a politician ...
Rubio accused TikTok of collecting user’s data to “manipulate feeds” and accused the app of being a “CCP [Chinese Communist Party]-puppet company,” and Gallagher went so far as to call TikTok “digital fentanyl that’s addicting Americans, collecting troves of their data, and censoring ...
By now, most of us are aware social media companies collect vast amounts of our information. By doing this, they can target us with ads and monetise our attention. The latest chapter in the data-privacy debate concerns one ...
Two of your social media apps could be collecting a lot of data on you — and you might not like what one of them is doing with it. That's according to arecent study, published last month by mobile marketing company URL Genius, which found that YouTube and TikTok track users' pe...
to the Chinese government, there has been no concrete evidence to that effect that has surfaced in existing technical reviews of the app. In fact, Comparitechevaluated TikTok privacy and security concernsin detail and found no evidence that TikTok is collecting user data and sending it to ...
Similarly, respected security researcher, Baptiste Robert (@fs0c131y), concludes that "As far as we can see, in its current state, TikTok doesn't have a suspicious behavior and is not exfiltrating unusual data." TikTok Collecting User Data Through Unusual Encryption Then, in mid-August 20...