"A pop up on the app caused concern in most people and others probably agreed to the new pop-up without blinking. When U.S. users opened the app, the scroll was blocked until they accepted new terms tied to TikTok's transition into American majority ownership. On paper, this is about compliance and survival. In practice, it quietly reshapes what the platform can see, store, and sell about the people who fuel it."
"For years, TikTok insisted it did not collect GPS level location data from U.S. users. That era is over. Under the new policy, if a user enables location services, TikTok can now collect precise location data, not just approximate signals from IP addresses or SIM regions. That puts it in the same data neighborhood as apps like Instagramand X. The difference is TikTok is making this shift at a moment when trust is already fragile."
TikTok formed TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC amid pressure to sever Chinese control, with investors including Oracle. The platform can now collect precise GPS-level location when users enable location services, moving beyond IP- or SIM-based approximations. AI interactions—prompts, questions, uploaded files, generated responses, and related metadata—are formally collectible and may be stored and tied to accounts. The updated policy broadens advertising reach through the TikTok Ad Network, enabling off-platform data sharing with advertisers and publishers. TikTok declined to comment on specifics. User trust is fragile because these changes broaden what the platform can see, store, and sell.
Read at AllHipHop
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]