Harvesting data is the norm for social media apps, but the question that many have is where it goes and who has access to it. Like most social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, TikTok captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories. The US government is concerned that your data collection by TikTok's parent company - ByteDance is available to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This would provide the CCP access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information, which could allow them to favorably influence American's opinion or even potentially compromise their personal privacy for some nefarious intent. Read more...
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