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“TikTok says [the data it collects in the United States] stays in the U.S. with backups in Singapore. But multiple investigations (e.g. leaked audio from over 80 internal TikTok meetings in 2022) revealed that U.S. user data was repeatedly accessed by engineers in China.... Here’s what TikTok sends back to their servers: your timezone, your longitude and latitude ... unique device identifiers ... network code, connection type, everything in your address book.”
Attorney and author Brett Trembly recently posted a thread of warnings on social media about the privacy that TikTok users hand over when agreeing to the app’s terms of service.
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