Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by wingerlang on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:16AM
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What purchases, from what source? Same with financial information.
Contact info and contacts, only if you allow it?
User content, what does that even mean?
Search and browsing history is likely just from within the app, I don't see how they would get it from elsewhere.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by cyral on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:35AM
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Purchases probably meaning the in-app purchase for things you can send to people on TikTok lives. I have seen app dev advice that if you store purchase info on your server in any way, instead of it being a local only purchase, then you must check the box that you collect purchase info.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by wingerlang on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:24AM
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Which is exactly what they have done, considering this list is literally from the App Store page. This was only explained after the comment was edited and provides quite a lot of context to the list.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by cloudking on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:50AM
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Updated with more context and source links. The real question is, why does it need all this data to show you videos?
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by m4jor on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:03AM
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I'm not an Android dev but I wonder if its ALL PURCHASE history or just access to purchase history and info in regards to the app like if you buy stuff in-app. Likely the latter if I had to guess.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by wingerlang on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:22AM
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I think without the context, it sounds extremely nefarious. But just as you, I think most of this data is things simply from within the app itself. Or data you explicitly grant access to.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by tekknik on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:07AM
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We all know the answer to that. It’s a free product, so you are the product.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by UncleMeat on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @09:06AM
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Most of that data is needed to allow you to create videos and pay creators. The app does more than just show videos.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by llllIIIIllll on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:21AM
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search and browsing history, like from Safari and not from whatever dodgy embedded browser tt has?
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by m4jor on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:05AM
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Of course its from their in-app browser and the stuff you type while inside it.
They cannot obtain all your history from Safari/Chrome/FF on your phone.
Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone
by alfiedotwtf on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:24AM
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And here's Twitter...
- Location
- Personal info: Name, Email, User IDs, Address, Phone Number
- Financial info: User payment info, purchase history, other financial info
- Messages: Other in-app messages
- Photos & Videos
- Audio voice & sound recordings
- Contacts
- App activity: App interactions, in-app search history, other user generated content
- Web browsing history
- App info and performance: Crash logs, diagnostics, other performance data
- Device or other IDs
TikTok iOS data collected:
- Purchases
- Financial Info
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content
- Search History
- Browsing History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics