Ladle Ghoulash 55,360 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) 1 hour ago, elsamars said: People are either naive or maybe they choose to be naive to keep their sanity Eh, it’s not really naive so much as it’s not particularly unique to TikTok. Much of the world is essentially a digital surveillance state and has been for the better part of 15-20 years and this TikTok policy (which isn’t materially different than the previous iteration of their policy from years ago) doesn’t change that. Edited January 24 by Ladle Ghoulash We have forgotten our public MANNERS 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mason 293 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 A chinese company tracking people? shocking lol Maybe this was the deal Trump made to unban it 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 How does TikTok know your citizenship and immigration status? Genuinely curious. 🧐 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneaky Oliver 23,088 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I feel dumb like how can they get all this info from users? Is it based on what kind of content someone is watching? Like I could search for buddhism videos and they will assume I’m a Buddhist? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Upd: Read the privacy policy myself. That’s the information you provide yourself (whether upon filling out a survey or sharing as part of your content). This won’t be automatically collected (because there is no way to do that). Unless you disclose your sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status, etc., TikTok won’t be able to do anything. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah H 4,461 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 9 hours ago, hELXIG said: Is this just in America perchance? I'm so tired of this world Yes just US I think. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsleepOnTheCeiling 7,021 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 16 hours ago, Lucas said: That's ****ing crazy. I wonder who they're selling this data to and why. I'd venture a guess at Palantir. 4 hours ago, Mason said: A chinese company tracking people? shocking lol Maybe this was the deal Trump made to unban it What's funny is that "China tracks people" was propagandized to the point that a large group of Americans were okay with it being banned. And the government seeing it as a greenlight to have the Chinese asset essentially forcibly seized so they themselves could harvest the user data and control the algorithm. Before you say "I'd rather America gather its own data than the Chinese gather it", there's only one group currently funding a terrorist organization occupying American cities. And it's not the Chinese. 1 hour ago, artmonstered said: Upd: Read the privacy policy myself. That’s the information you provide yourself (whether upon filling out a survey or sharing as part of your content). This won’t be automatically collected (because there is no way to do that). Unless you disclose your sexual orientation, citizenship, immigration status, etc., TikTok won’t be able to do anything. Yeah Google claims this too. Yet you can see what Google infers about you based on your activity and they make a lot of assumptions about you as a demographic. Marital status, sexual orientation, age, etc. The fact that Tik Tok is notorious for the accuracy of it's algorithm should be extremely worrying when the new board is closely tied to Trump. "Tiktok won't be able to do anything" is blatantly false unfortunately. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 minutes ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said: I'd venture a guess at Palantir. What's funny is that "China tracks people" was propagandized to the point that a large group of Americans were okay with it being banned. And the government seeing it as a greenlight to have the Chinese asset essentially forcibly seized so they themselves could harvest the user data and control the algorithm. Before you say "I'd rather America gather its own data than the Chinese gather it", there's only one group currently funding a terrorist organization occupying American cities. And it's not the Chinese. Yeah Google claims this too. Yet you can see what Google infers about you based on your activity and they make a lot of assumptions about you as a demographic. Marital status, sexual orientation, age, etc. The fact that Tik Tok is notorious for the accuracy of it's algorithm should be extremely worrying when the new board is closely tied to Trump. "Tiktok won't be able to do anything" is blatantly false unfortunately. They won’t know my marital status if I don’t share it myself as well as citizenship and immigration status, even nationality tbh, unless they explicitly ask for it. You can’t label me as an American living in Europe based on my algorithm, although that’s probably how I look based on my activity. I don’t deny it’s worrying, I am simply asking how will they collect the information they don’t know about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornAsUnic0rn 2,249 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Sneaky Oliver said: I feel dumb like how can they get all this info from users? Is it based on what kind of content someone is watching? Like I could search for buddhism videos and they will assume I’m a Buddhist? Yes. That, your own posts and likely direct messaging. To various degrees of intensity that‘s how all social media works, behind the profile you create the platform kinda creates for lack of better words some kind of „shadow profile“ which the algorithm uses to show you what you see. It turns very dark and dystopian when that information can be directly accessed (for example by government institutions like police, ICE, etc.) to hunt, investigate and hurt people as some sort of data base of citizens. Which is exactly what the west kept accusing China of, but the US seems to actually move into that direction. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsleepOnTheCeiling 7,021 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 14 minutes ago, artmonstered said: They won’t know my marital status if I don’t share it myself as well as citizenship and immigration status, even nationality tbh, unless they explicitly ask for it. You can’t label me as an American living in Europe based on my algorithm, although that’s probably how I look based on my activity. I don’t deny it’s worrying, I am simply asking how will they collect the information they don’t know about. They won't know, but they will infer. And that's what's worrying. They'll look at who shares videos with you, who you follow, what you watch and interact with. If you feel the algorithm serves things you like, they generally know. They will still label you as that as an assumption to better serve you content and increase value for ads. The issue comes in when that information is sold to whoever or given. In a just society it wouldn't be a problem. But it becomes a problem in a place where they grab you off the street based on your accent or your skin color. And will take you into custody and disappear before you ever get the chance to prove them wrong. And that's happening in the US. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RAMROD 118,097 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Well, how many of y'all deleting the app by today if you are a member?? (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ ⁱᵐ'ᵐᵃ ʰⁱᵗ ᵈᵉᶠʳᵒˢᵗ ᵒⁿ ʸᵃ, ˡᵉᵗ'ˢ ᵍᵉᵗ ⁱᵗ ᵇˡᵃᶻⁱⁿᵍ﹗ (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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