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(Metro)   Employees at the TikkityToks are looking at your private data   (metro.co.uk) divider line
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581 clicks; posted to Business » on 04 Nov 2022 at 9:05 AM (20 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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SecretAgentWoman [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-04 9:39:02 AM  
No shiat. A Chinese engineered and owned app? Shocked, I say, I'm shocked.
 
hej
2022-11-04 9:40:11 AM  
"Private" data.
 
Schlubbe [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-04 9:46:44 AM  
$10 says it's right there in the EULA you accepted when you downloaded the app. But you got to watch vapid people doing the latest challenge or dance moves, so it's totally worth it.

/that's what Xi said
 
Rapmaster2000 [TotalFark]
2022-11-04 9:59:58 AM  
TikTok takes your data and hands it to China.

That's what makes Facebook smarter.  Facebook takes you data and sells it to China.  TikTok is leaving money on the table.
 
markie_farkie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-04 10:02:47 AM  
Oh, you mean basic geo and demographic data that can already be mined from 10,000 other online entities, and used for marketing purposes?

**YAWN**
 
Wave Of Anal Fury
2022-11-04 10:46:57 AM  
We have well over 10 years of "your private data isn't private" stories, and people keep signing up for services that harvest their private data.  People don't care.

The only thing George Orwell got wrong was how willing people would be to be mass surveilled.
 
Linux_Yes
2022-11-04 11:14:57 AM  

SecretAgentWoman: No shiat. A Chinese engineered and owned app? Shocked, I say, I'm shocked.


Im just grateful merican companies like MS dont snoop on us.

Lolzzz
 
inglixthemad
2022-11-04 11:16:29 AM  
Even if i have never even loaded the TikkityToks on my phone nor looked at a TikkityTok video?

Wow, that's impressive.
 
Linux_Yes
2022-11-04 11:17:07 AM  

Rapmaster2000: TikTok takes your data and hands it to China.

That's what makes Facebook smarter.  Facebook takes you data and sells it to China.  TikTok is leaving money on the table.


We have to keep used car salesman capitalism humming along
 
groppet
2022-11-04 11:56:05 AM  
You don't say!
 
cryinoutloud [BareFark]
2022-11-04 12:39:56 PM  
You know what those data people do? They look at your personal shiat, all of it.  Then they sell it.
So it's even worse than you imagined.
And you won't change a thing about your personal behavior.

inglixthemad: Even if i have never even loaded the TikkityToks on my phone nor looked at a TikkityTok video?
Wow, that's impressive.


You know Facebook and Twitter  track you here, right?  I've never had a Facebook page or a Twitter.  Why don't you ask Drew about it?  I'm sure he'll be perfectly forthcoming.
They advertise here. They have us.
 
skinink [OhFark]
2022-11-04 12:57:32 PM  
Which is why all of my TikTok videos are of Winnie the Pooh.
 
King Something [TotalFark]
2022-11-04 4:59:53 PM  

cryinoutloud: You know what those data people do? They look at your personal shiat, all of it.  Then they sell it.
So it's even worse than you imagined.
And you won't change a thing about your personal behavior.

inglixthemad: Even if i have never even loaded the TikkityToks on my phone nor looked at a TikkityTok video?
Wow, that's impressive.

You know Facebook and Twitter  track you here, right?  I've never had a Facebook page or a Twitter.  Why don't you ask Drew about it?  I'm sure he'll be perfectly forthcoming.
They advertise here. They have us.


What makes TikTok different from the rest of them is that they're (at least partially) owned by the Beijing government. At least on Facebook and Twitter, you can publicly announce that you know that something happened on 4 June 1989 without having to worry about your account being immediately and permanently suspended, nor would you get a knock on your door from hired goons reminding you that you have family in mainland China and you should go visit them because it would be a real shame if something happened to them.
 
Nexzus
2022-11-04 11:23:22 PM  

cryinoutloud: You know what those data people do? They look at your personal shiat, all of it.  Then they sell it.
So it's even worse than you imagined.
And you won't change a thing about your personal behavior.

inglixthemad: Even if i have never even loaded the TikkityToks on my phone nor looked at a TikkityTok video?
Wow, that's impressive.

You know Facebook and Twitter  track you here, right?  I've never had a Facebook page or a Twitter.  Why don't you ask Drew about it?  I'm sure he'll be perfectly forthcoming.
They advertise here. They have us.


Ever been verbally talking about something and then have that subject either show up in a google search suggest or even an ad? Freaky stuff.

So much can be gleaned even fetching an image.
 
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