TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)

Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by rjzzleep on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:07AM (#31921239)

> authoritarian regime saw facebook in 2012 and said

What a weird statement. Facebook has been taking all of that data for a long time. Some of the protections in Android and iOS were specifically added to inhibit Facebook from recording the surroundings in the background. TikTok just does more of the same partly because they just have more audio and video data to work with. Remember how Uber showed how cool they can track hookup dates? All of that is potentially blackmail-able information.

Are you somehow insinuating that Facebook is somehow okay because they are in a "democratic" country?

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by geerlingguy on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:09AM (#31921272)

I think the comment is insinuating that any country that wants deep personal data on a huge subset of the population should make sure it has a popular social network, so its citizens (and in some cases, citizens from around the world) willingly sit there inputting any and every detail about their lives and relationships into the database.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by vore on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:03PM (#31922872)

No, I think they're saying Facebook is bad but having an entity tied to a not-so-friendly government do it on a much larger scale is worse.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by jacooper on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:38PM (#31926555)

As if the U.S is a totally friendly government to the entire world ? Iraq, Afghanistan and many other countries the US destroyed would sure disagree.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by vore on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:18PM (#31939407)

I did not say the US government was friendly, nor does the context of TikTok operating in the US have anything remotely to do with Iraq or Afghanistan.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by DangitBobby on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:37AM (#31928998)

Why are you talking about the US government right now? Is Facebook run by the US government?

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by maccolgan on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:09PM (#31926865)

There's incredible amount of misplaced belief on HN that every HN reader considers the US government friendly.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by vore on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:32AM (#31930339)

I didn't say the US government was friendly, and I certainly don't think that either. But if we're talking about social networks surveilling people in the US, the US government doing it is bad and an adversarial foreign government doing it is worse.

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by lucakiebel on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:14AM (#31921330)

I think the „2012“ comes from the notion that Facebook was somehow more widely used in the past. I also think it’s the case from time to time since my family &friends don‘t use FB, but they have quadrupled their DAUs since 2012

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Re:TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and v... by nhinck on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @11:10AM (#31921285)

That's not the insinuation at all

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