Kim Komando just released her newsletter to subscribers and one of the articles talk about how to use TikTok safely. According to the article, the app is owned by TBie Dance, a company that is an internet technology company.
There is a 1 percent steak in the company by the Chinese Government says the article. Kim addressed this on her show recently, says the article.
Basicly, if you’ve got an old phone, only have TikTok on the phone or device itself with no other personal information on it.
I’d say, create a separate apple ID just for that, download the app through that ID, and don’t put anything else on the device. That might be overkill, and telling the device not to restore from backup would be fine and using the same ID could be OK, its an option you can use.
The article is titled Use TikTok? Take this one step now or they might be tracking you and we’re going to pass this along.
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