Comment by soheil
4 years ago
What happens in tiktok app is very much tiktok's business and their IP.
Are you possibly conflating tiktok tracking its own users within its app with somehow it gaining access to the OS itself and tracking users at that level? That is clearly not happening as far as what is publicly known as much as stories like this want you to believe for it to be the case.
It makes sense when you’re a slick lawyer appealing to technicalities, but in reality users don’t know how their devices work and where borders of an app are. If tiktok was a restaurant, we would talk about its restroom surveillance here. It may not collect too private information like passwords or messages, but the doubt is reasonable.
Would consider it right for a browser to snoop on every page opened, every link clicked, every character typed and send it to the cloud without informing the user?
No my point is why single out tiktok when every other social app is doing the same exact thing for all we know in their in-app browsers. Just because the researcher in this particular article happened to go after tiktok?
Why not use an example if you know they are doing it, if you don’t have time to lookup what all the others are doing? Its a pretty weak defense that everyone else is doing the same wrong thing.
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