"The revised document details the U.S. joint venture's conditions for using its service, including the specific location information it may collect. Many users are also posting to social media about language found in the policy, which says that TikTok could collect sensitive information about its users, including their "sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status.""
"To understand why users are concerned - and why the policy reads this way - it helps to look at both the current political climate and the legal requirements TikTok is navigating. Specifically, the policy states that TikTok could process information from users' content or what they may share through surveys, including information about their "racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information.""
An ownership change prompted an in-app alert about TikTok's updated U.S. privacy policy. The revised policy outlines the U.S. joint venture's conditions for service use and specifies location data that may be collected. The policy lists categories of sensitive information that could be processed from user content or survey responses, including racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, health diagnoses, sexual life or orientation, transgender or nonbinary status, citizenship or immigration status, and financial information. The language appeared before the ownership deal closed and matches state privacy-law disclosure requirements such as California's CCPA. Similar disclosures exist in other social media platforms' policies. Heightened political and immigration enforcement tensions amplify user alarm.
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