What exactly about the tiktok app makes it Chinese spyware? Has it been proven it can do something?
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All social media platforms are spyware, that’s basically their business model.
The app collects everything it can about you. Obvious things like what you view and who/what you interact with on their platform. But also less obvious things like location data, contacts stored on your phone, mac addresses of devices your wifi can see.
They can build a very detailed profile about you. It can get pretty crazy once they cross reference data from different profiles, matching contacts, and devices. They don’t just know who you know, they know when you’re near then, what your routines may be. They know where you work and where you live without them explicitly telling them. They know where you get coffee in the morning, and they know the people who are typically there when you are, even if you’ve never actually noticed them.
Even people that don’t use their app have a profile. You have their contact on your phone. You’re around them so your phone can see their phone. It can cross reference profiles and location data to get a pretty good guess what the MAC address of their phone is and build around that.
Again, this is something every social media company is trying to do. The difference is TikTok is owned by a Chinese and the Chinese government is well known to have a hand in everything everyone over there does. Especially in the tech space. I don’t know if there is any evidence of it for Bytedance, but chinese companies get a lot of subsidies from the government. Its a very safe bet that people in the CCP have access to this data.
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