This isn't new [0] even as shown in June 2021 last year where we have them already admitting they collect this data and shouldn't surprise anyone that after this [1] they are unsurprisingly screwing their users data in a worse way than Facebook was and now you have reports of China who have always been surveilling their user data (even for US users); Also expected and unsurprisingly.
There is no defending this indefensible spyware which is beyond worse than Facebook and it is really the direct opposite of "The best thing to have happened to the Internet." [2]
There is no defending this indefensible spyware which is beyond worse than Facebook and it is really the direct opposite of "The best thing to have happened to the Internet." [2]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151067
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484