So if for some goddamn reason you still have tiktok? Maybe delete it
This shit is dystopian as fuck
Delete it as soon as you can do not fucking use the app at all
Yeah, so, "TikTok is officially under the control of a cadre of pro-Trump billionaires including Larry Ellison."
I don’t want to shock anyone and nobody reads these anyway, but this is the portion of the Privacy Policy about how they get your information called “Information you provide”. If you provide them this information. They will then have this information. Because you provided it. Rather than just leaving it up to the imagination, they’ve given a whole host of examples (which is good, if one reads privacy policies, because it makes clear all the kinds of info they would have….if you gave it to them).
Per the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/20251201023130/https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/us/privacy-policy/en), this language is essentially the same as prior to the US handoff (there are some changes, like location tracking, which are of interest).
Last updated: Aug 19, 2024This Privacy Policy applies to TikTok services (the “Platform”), which include TikTok apps, websites, software and
This is not a defense of tiktok, nor a criticism of concerns about what tiktok (or, you know, anyone who looks at your stuff *on* tiktok) might do with information about your gender identity, citizenship status, etc etc. These are dark and challenging times. But privacy policy or not, every social media site will always have access to the information YOU GIVE THEM. And tiktok had access to all this before, so it’s certainly not going to have less access today than it did last week.
Signed,
Someone who doesn’t post to tiktok but does look at a lot of ferret videos. I guess they’ll be replaced by bald eagle videos….
