> What’s different about the way TikTok collects data?
> TikTok’s data collection methods include the ability to collect user contact lists, access calendars, scan hard drives including external ones and geolocate devices on an hourly basis.
> “When the app is in use, it has significantly more permissions than it really needs,” said Robert Potter, co-CEO of Internet 2.0 and one of the editors of the report.
> “It grants those permissions by default. When a user doesn’t give it permission … [TikTok] persistently asks.
> “If you tell Facebook you don’t want to share something, it won’t ask you again. TikTok is much more aggressive.”
> “The application can and will run successfully without any of this data being gathered. This leads us to believe that the only reason this information has been gathered is for data harvesting,” it concluded.
And that's besides the point. All social media gathers data, it matters what they do with it. TikTok by law cannot refuse a data request from the CCP, a government that has used digital tracking to locate and imprison people.
If none of this matters to you, fine. If you trust an authoritarian government more than a democratic one, ok. Just don't pretend all actors in this play are the same.
Yes it does. A lot more.
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/19/tiktok-ha...
> What’s different about the way TikTok collects data?
> TikTok’s data collection methods include the ability to collect user contact lists, access calendars, scan hard drives including external ones and geolocate devices on an hourly basis.
> “When the app is in use, it has significantly more permissions than it really needs,” said Robert Potter, co-CEO of Internet 2.0 and one of the editors of the report.
> “It grants those permissions by default. When a user doesn’t give it permission … [TikTok] persistently asks.
> “If you tell Facebook you don’t want to share something, it won’t ask you again. TikTok is much more aggressive.”
> “The application can and will run successfully without any of this data being gathered. This leads us to believe that the only reason this information has been gathered is for data harvesting,” it concluded.
And that's besides the point. All social media gathers data, it matters what they do with it. TikTok by law cannot refuse a data request from the CCP, a government that has used digital tracking to locate and imprison people.
TikTok's CTO even quit over the fact that when he tried to stop TikTok from leaking data back to the CCP, he couldn't: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/tiktoks-chief-security-off...
If none of this matters to you, fine. If you trust an authoritarian government more than a democratic one, ok. Just don't pretend all actors in this play are the same.