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Real question is why does android allow access to a phones MAC address?
If you read TFA:

> TikTok appears to have exploited a known bug on Android to gather users’ MAC addresses,

If you have TikTok on your resume, I would never hire you.
Is this the same BS scare like "Tiktok is collecting you clipboard data on iOS" and then later it turns out a lot of high profile apps are actually doing it?

And even more important, there are plenty of analytics, crash report, tracking and I don't know what else third party services with their SDKs, usually doing the collection of data. I am juts not sure why are they never mentioned.

It would be useful to make a comparison with, say, the top 100 Android apps. This whole issues has become politisized and I don't know who to believe.