• CyberEgg
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    1 year ago

    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).

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        TikTok is big tech.

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