Perspective: Is it time to delete TikTok? A guide to the rumors and the real privacy risks.
claimed as recently as 2019 that TikTok was sending data to several Internet addresses in China, without citing sources for the claim. It also claimed the app contained source code from China’s Internet giant Baidu, as well as advertising software called Igexin thatNash-Hahn declined to comment on the case, but said, “We neither use code of, nor send any data to, Baidu or Igexin.” Lawyers for the case did not respond to a request for comment.
And again, TikTok’s privacy policy leaves a door open to responding to government requests — without specifying which governments. It reads: “We may disclose your information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries.” But TikTok is hardly the Chinese government’s only way to gather information about Americans. The U.S. has repeatedly accused it of espionage, including the
credit reporting agency. Americans’ personal data is put at risk every day by American corporations that collect, sell and store it in insecure ways.In some ways, TikTok gathers less data. In addition to most of the types of personal information we saw TikTok gathering, Facebook also tracks users across devices, and inside other apps and websites.
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