<story><title>TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)</title><url>https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/security/tiktok-privacy-faceprints/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>Is this collection different from, say, Meta? I believe they collect all the same information via Instagram.&lt;p&gt;And before someone says Meta is an American company, not controlled by an adversary, let me recall that it’s controlled by Zuckerberg who spent $419 million to influence US election administration in a seemingly partisan way (“democracy hacking” as another commenter said). Meta may not be YOUR adversary, but that fact is not necessarily true of all (or even most) Americans</text></item><item><author>upupandup</author><text>A security researcher wrote an article  while back and it was shocking to see how much data TikTok was collecting:&lt;p&gt;- biometrics&lt;p&gt;- what words are mentioned in the video, popularity&lt;p&gt;- surrounding wifi, location data&lt;p&gt;- your contacts (presumably to cross link to social media platforms)&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t believe that a powerful country like America is letting a not-so-friendly military&amp;#x2F;civilian complex infiltrate it for somewhat unknown purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ppsreejith</author><text>&amp;gt; let me recall that it’s controlled by Zuckerberg who spent $419 million to influence US election administration in a seemingly partisan way&lt;p&gt;For more context, from: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.protocol.com&amp;#x2F;newsletters&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;zuck-bucks-conspiracies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.protocol.com&amp;#x2F;newsletters&amp;#x2F;policy&amp;#x2F;zuck-bucks-consp...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; He offered nearly half a billion dollars in grants to any election official who wanted one, as long as those officials spent it on what a lot of people would consider mundane essentials: ballot sorters, drop boxes, poll workers and — because it was 2020 — hand sanitizer.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And when those election officials applied for more money than he originally offered, he kicked in another $119 million to satisfy the rest of the requests.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; At a time when Republicans are rapidly restricting access to the ballot box in states across the country, spending nearly half a billion dollars to do the exact opposite of that is tantamount to a partisan choice. Or, at least, it was bound to be viewed that way.</text></comment>
<story><title>TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)</title><url>https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/security/tiktok-privacy-faceprints/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hammock</author><text>Is this collection different from, say, Meta? I believe they collect all the same information via Instagram.&lt;p&gt;And before someone says Meta is an American company, not controlled by an adversary, let me recall that it’s controlled by Zuckerberg who spent $419 million to influence US election administration in a seemingly partisan way (“democracy hacking” as another commenter said). Meta may not be YOUR adversary, but that fact is not necessarily true of all (or even most) Americans</text></item><item><author>upupandup</author><text>A security researcher wrote an article  while back and it was shocking to see how much data TikTok was collecting:&lt;p&gt;- biometrics&lt;p&gt;- what words are mentioned in the video, popularity&lt;p&gt;- surrounding wifi, location data&lt;p&gt;- your contacts (presumably to cross link to social media platforms)&lt;p&gt;I just can&amp;#x27;t believe that a powerful country like America is letting a not-so-friendly military&amp;#x2F;civilian complex infiltrate it for somewhat unknown purpose.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kube-system</author><text>It’s a little bit different, because Meta operates in a much different legal environment.  You give up a lot of control of your company to the CCP to operate in China, and if you don’t, you’re forced out of the market.</text></comment>