In recent weeks, we have seen reports emerge suggesting that First, as with all platforms of its kind, TikTok occasionally releases software with security vulnerabilities that need to be urgently fixed. (@dormandel/TikTok) Your risk as an individual is I am the Founder/CEO of Digital Barriers—developing advanced surveillance solutions for defence, national security and counter-terrorism. TikTok has a reputation for being a place where teen girls can “receive creepy to actively upsetting messages from older men,” Hern said.
While the data being captured on those hundreds of millions of devices is not much use to compromise an individual—it would be a horribly complex way to spy on select targets, it does provide an amortized dataset, country by country, city by city, demographic by demographic. In this case, blame the players, rather than the game.”Second, TikTok is a social media platform—you don’t need me to tell you that social media and data privacy are somewhat contradictory. In December, a German website called Netzpolitik reported that TikTok used to hide content from disabled, LGBTQ and overweight creators. U.S. senators have said they were worried the information could be used to spy on Americans and influence political decisions. Get your class on the same page, add this to (@maximeb/TikTok) We see how hard it is for Facebook to control its data, so with TikTok the risk is high.”That risk emanates from TikTok’s scale. TikTok: teens love it, and parents don’t understand it. If you’re a parent of a tween, TikTok is likely part of your family’s life, whether your child is spending hours on the app, or spending hours begging you for permission to download it. The video “should not have been removed,” TikTok said. An electrician later told his family the prank could have started a fire in the walls. The video “should not have been removed,” TikTok said. I write about the intersectionI am the Founder/CEO of Digital Barriers—developing advanced surveillance solutions for defence, national security and counter-terrorism. Uighurs are a Muslim community that’s based in northwestern China. (@x_feroza/TikTok)
This past November, concerns about censorship on TikTok surfaced when Feroza Aziz, a 17-year-old girl from New Jersey, posted a political video disguised as a makeup tutorial. The American teen claimed her video, which brought attention to Uighur internment camps in China, was temporarily made unavailable by TikTok after it was viewed more than 1.5 million times. The danger may be minimal to the individual but serious for society and democracy.”TikTok is at pains to stress that it has not provided user data to Beijing, that it would not do so if asked. “TikTok is high quality target for hacking groups,” Vanunu warns, “so whether the infrastructure is ready for such sophisticated malicious activities is the big question and the risk.”We saw that same risk highlighted when the Twitter accounts associated with the hactivist group So, should you delete the app? “This isn’t a TikTok problem,” Phillips said. (Starla Dawn/Facebook) Downloads of the app are rapidly outstripping those of more established social networks, like Twitter and Facebook.
“While the intention was good, the approach was wrong,” McQuaide said. TikTok captures data as you use the app, it is brilliantly positioned to infer your likes and dislikes, friends, pastimes, consumer behavior, locations, even patterns of life. Maxime Beaulieu is a popular Canadian TikToker who lives with Treacher Collins syndrome. Last February, TikTok had to pay a big fine in the U.S. for collecting personal information from kids under 13. (AFP via Getty Images)RECAP — Taking a Byte out of TikTok? TikTok says data collected from American and Canadian users is secure because it isn’t stored in China. “This is a kid that did a stupid thing.” On the other hand, the app has received some bad press for everything from promoting dangerous challenges to allegedly censoring creators.
He said the platform has become safer for kids thanks to a feature that allows users under 13 to view videos but not share them. “TikTok is led by an American CEO, with hundreds of employees and key leaders across safety, security, product, and public policy here in the U.S.,” the company told me in response to talk of that U.S. ban. We cover five of the top reasons as well as how to get strated. New app explainedRECAP — Taking a Byte out of TikTok?
There is a fear that with hundreds of millions of users, this non-U.S. application is hard to control. Uighurs are a Muslim community based in north western China. Does that mean you are being spied upon, that your data is being compromised, putting you at risk—no, at least not any more onerously than with U.S. social media giants doing the same. We have never provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we do so if asked.”Politicians in the U.S. and elsewhere clearly take a sceptical view on this, and the question is whether China could strong-arm ByteDance—TikTok’s Chinese owner—into tailoring or restricting content or could gather those amortized data findings to better shape their attempts to influence all of those populations. Brands want to make money off it.