Comment by rvz

This was expected and the intention for this invasive spyware is obvious, otherwise, how else is their dystopian recommendation algorithm supposed to work if you don't give access to your entire life records.

The difference is that this was done before by Meta / Facebook and they were fined in the millions, and even by billions by regulators like the FTC over this. This same problems a decade ago are being repeated once again and we have learned nothing.

TikTok should be under the same regulations, especially when they are operating in many countries that have strict data privacy laws and given this unsurprising and extremely invasive data collection practice which is even worse than Facebook, they should be fined in the billions of dollars as a reminder that it applies to any social network, especially those with billions of users.

If left alone, it will only get worse for everyone.