ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens
What kind of data can the app collect?<p>I don&#x27;t use TikTok, but it seems to be video entertainment. It gets access to your location, and it knows a ton about what videos you like, but is that really all that useful? TFA cites &quot;phone numbers, birthdays and draft videos&quot; -- the first two are hardly secret, and the latter is specifically stuff that you were planning to make not-secret.<p>Sure, it&#x27;s not great that they&#x27;re following you, but TikTok is hardly alone in that. Your location is also a terrible secret.<p>I can see objecting to TikTok as a propaganda machine (even if the US is hardly in any position to be complaining about others&#x27; propaganda machines). But I&#x27;m unclear on just what kind of surveillance they think is going on here, or why the Chinese government would find it especially useful.