Tiktok: Literally uses the algorithm to say their interested users: Look, we can do this, us, as any other social media, had access to the id of the phone towers and we-all are triangulating you, and we know you know, all good.
(they’re the only tech firm openly saying this at the time)
Lobbied by the tech industry politicians: Shut up, they shouldn’t know, don’t bring them back to coding, banned from the group chat!













