TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes

Re:TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s ... by karaterobot on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:32AM (#30274618)

I think it would be a mistake for anyone to conclude that because none of these companies is good, they're all equally bad. There is a lesser and greater evil in this case.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s ... by netcan on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @11:42AM (#30274754)

OK... What's the case for lesser or greater.

Bear in mind that we don't really know much about how our data is being used at any of these, either directly by the company or by security agencies in their home countries. US security also has access to foreign citizens' FB & Google data via prism or its successors.

The whole argument here seems (to me) to be [1] TikTok collects a scary and unjustifiable amount of data about its customers, just like youtube, FB Etc. [2] We don't know exactly what's collected and why [3] TikTok are chinese.

Singling out Tiktok is neither helpful nor honest, IMO.

[ Parent | on HN ]