TikTok plans to update its privacy policy on December 2 to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including in China, can access the data of European users
Privacy policy update confirms data of continent's users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US
TikTok just acknowledged to European users that it can share their data with the Chinese government. This is a massive admission, and a key to a puzzle. To understand why, it's important to understand CCP influence in Chinese companies (thread). https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
https://www.theguardian.com/ ... TikTok says that this isn't new, but they certainly worked very hard to give the impression it wasn't the case without ever explicitly saying it wasn't the case
“TikTok is spelling out to its European users that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in #China, amid political and regulatory concerns about Chinese access to user information on the platform.” https://theguardian.com/...