TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …

Wired 2026-01-24 Reece Rogers

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@karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky
Trump (with bipartisan help) offloaded TikTok to his rich technofascist buddies who are going to do everything they spent the last four years accusing China of. Probably more. [embedded post]
@vortexegg.com @vortexegg.com on bluesky
The hypothetical “opsec for normie citizens engaging in activism” guide people were talking about needs to include deleting tiktok off their phones. [embedded post]
@thiccreese Reece on bluesky
BREAKING: Now that TikTok is under US-based ownership, the social media app potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. — My latest for @wired.com: — www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
@wired.com @wired.com on bluesky
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
@parismarx.com Paris Marx on bluesky
US-owned TikTok is a greater threat than Chinese-owned TikTok. [embedded post]
Newsmax Solange Reyner on x
Report: US, China Approve TikTok Ownership Deal
@adamconner @adamconner on x
Incredible they are not even going to tell us what other ByteDance apps new TikTok US owns. Here's the list of the ByteDance apps Apple banned from the App Store in January 2024 when the ban took effect. https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ... https://techcrunch.com/... [image]
@sarafischer Sara Fischer on x
#BREAKING: @TikTok divestiture deal closes - Steve Case's Revolution Ventures, Michael Dell's Family office & Alpha Wave all investors, in addition to Oracle, MGX Silver Lake - $14B deal is a fire sale to avoid a lawsuits TikTok lives to see another day https://www.axios.com/...
@dylanbyers Dylan Byers on x
TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga https://www.nytimes.com/... via @NYTimes
@adamconner @adamconner on x
If true, and this is the Jan 22nd deadline where the illegal non-enforcement ban expires, then hopefully we'll get some answers to questions about the TikTok deal and if it even complies with the law that I raised in my December @amprog piece. https://www.americanprogress.org/ ..…
@judah-grunstein Judah Grunstein on bluesky
“Mr. Trump formally delayed the enforcement of the law several times after he took office again last January” is an interesting way of saying Trump manifestly broke the law by possible any reading of it. — Minor compared to his other crimes, but still.
@amanbatheja Aman Batheja on bluesky
“ByteDance will keep TikTok's coveted algorithm, which it will license to the new U.S. entity. — “That arrangement may fall short of the 2024 law, which required the divestment to end any ‘operational relationship’ between ByteDance and TikTok in the United States”
@nitishpahwa.com Nitish Pahwa on bluesky
wrote about the TikTok deal, a terrible arrangement made by terrible people for terrible reasons slate.com/technology/2...
@maryannefranks Mary Anne Franks on bluesky
Succinctly put by @anupamchander.bsky.social: “My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
@evelyndouek Evelyn Douek on bluesky
Almost as if allowing the government to broker the terms for the continued operation of a major communications platform is a bad idea and a democratic threat and something there should be a constitutional bar against — www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
@bobbyallyn Bobby Allyn on bluesky
China is outlawed from having an “operational relationship” w TikTok, but the finalized deal keeps ByteDance a minority investor & lets them own the algorithm. Far from a clean break from China. — What it DOES do is hand Larry Ellison's Oracle, the Emiratis and Silver Lake eno…
@evacide @evacide on bluesky
Will this deal turn US TikTok into a propaganda tool for the Trump administration? Probably, yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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r/DeepStateCentrism r on reddit
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@cjsprigman Chris Sprigman on bluesky
It's so funny that Republicans and Democrats alike were in such a moral panic about how the Chinese gov't would use our TikTok data. And somehow never for a moment did they pause to consider how right-wing US billionaires would use it. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
r/LinusTechTips r on reddit
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r/Staiy r on reddit
Tik Tok sammelt also Daten von seinen Nutzern über Sexuelle Orientierung und Migrationsstatus

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