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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Basically, most social media reads out everything that is openly accessible, like cookies, address books and contacts, etc.
TikTok goes deeper, it has been watched going into protected files, trying to break encryptions (sometimes being successful).

[–] KillAllPoorPeople@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

You need to source things instead of just spewing bullshit you hear on the grapevine.

[–] punseye@lemmy.world -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, didn't know about this, but, what if Big Tech has also been doing this, but with more perfection, without getting caught?

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

TikTok is big tech.

But your question is highly speculative and kind of comes across as bad faith.