Are you still using Tiktok? Here’s something you need to know

Kim Komando has been sounding the alarm on TikTok and its place of collecting data for a long time now. While I recommend people not use the app, maybe this may change those who are on the fence. This article was published on Kim’s site on April 8th, and it even leads to a Fox Business article where it talks about everything this application collects.

Kim’s article is titled The shocking data TikTok collects. Again, I don’t want to tell users what applications you use on your device. That’s your decision.

Don’t blame me if China decides that you might be violate some law you didn’t know because of what they collect. You just never know.

There are 12 different items that are highlighted in this article And as I said, Kim links to a laundry list of things that comes from Fox Business. We’re linking it here as a convenience. I may end up going and reading this once I write this up.

The items are:

• Your name, age, username, email address, password, phone number and location.
• Your IP address, cellphone carrier, time zone, the model of your device and the OS you use.
• Biometric identifiers, like facial IDs and voiceprints. Yep.
• The content of your messages, plus exactly when you send, receive and read them.
• If you buy stuff from the TikTop shop, your purchase information, including your credit card numbers, billing and shipping addresses.
• Your activities on other websites and apps (or in stores), including info on what you purchased.
• File names and types.
• Your keystroke patterns and rhythms.
• Objects and scenery that show up in your videos, including tourist attractions, shops and other landmarks.
• The web pages you visit the most and how you interact with them.
• Any text, images and videos on your clipboard.
• Information about your videos, images and audio.

Terms of Service, Didn’t read is a place that pops up sites that have Shady practices. Tiktok got an E and Kim also gives it an E. Other things you can do is search terms of searvice for words dealing with privacy, geotargeting, geolocation, and how we collect your personal info for clues. The word may indicates that there’s a strong possibility.

I read the Fox article and it goes in to more detail, and what we have here is a highlighted list.

Again, I don’t want to tell users not to use the app, but with the looming ban which I don’t think can be enforced, we’ll have to see how it all plays out.

Outright, crazy.