• Trarmp@feddit.nl
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      4 months ago

      TikTok OBJECTIVELY collects far lesser data than Big Tech apps and services

      This is not true for a number of reasons, first being that once the data gets sent to a Chinese server, it’s gone. It’s like a void. Those “data collections analysis” can speculate, but they truly have no idea what happens with that data. Another reason that TikTok is as bad as Instagram, is that they farmed all the data from the in-app browser. Every click, scroll, everything.

      You can argue that they have a different approach to data farming, and they do: they try and rope you in, trick you into giving them your data. But it’s demonstrable wrong to say that they collect less data. I wouldn’t say they collect more data than typical west social media platforms, but I think it’s disingenuous to say they’re somehow better.

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      I read through the first link you provided, it doesn’t align with your claim “TikTok OBJECTIVELY collects far lesser data than Big Tech apps and services.”

      We go section by section


      The companies collecting your face, voice & environment

      TikTok is worst here, collection all possible voice, face, environment data


      What can companies tell from image recognition?

      Again TikTok infer as much information as possible, worst among all listed.


      The later couple section did not mention tiktok, so I cannot compare it.

      Finally

      the 5 social media apps that know most about you

      TikTok ranked number 3 in among all the social media, above clubhouse and twitter, just below facebook and instagram.