TikTok is now collecting more data about its users (wired.com)

How much more data is even left to collect lol

Remember when part of the argument to force a TikTok sale was protecting American's private data? Honestly, if I had to hand my personal data over to someone, I much rather give it to the nebulous "China" that people always fearmonger about than an American billionaire aligned with the current administration because the latter is much more likely to have avenues to use that data against me.

Tiktok became a bigger national security risk after being sold than it was before.

For anyone confused, this only affects US users who's data is now handled by the new US entity.

CBS news is effectively state media after the Ellison acquisition and Weiss hire. TikTok's US operation won't be any different and rolling HBO/Time Warner/CNN et al into this will be even worse.

Is there any way to use the international version of TikTok in the US?

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Social Media is evil. Don't participate.

the solution to this is very obvious, but I know some folks won't cease using the product.

It's sort've cliche at this point but we got the worst of both Orwell and Huxley in that our super-invasive surveillance apparatus is also a super-addictive apparatus designed to hit all our evolutionary buttons like a slot machine.

I played with TikTok for a week or so. Every time I opened it, it was suggesting feeds featuring clearly mentally impaired people with large audiences throwing money at them for saying their name. It felt like a very concerted effort to dumb down the American population. You wouldn’t listen to these people for 10 seconds out in public. The fetal alcohol syndrome phenotype was widespread. The entire experience was disturbing, to be honest.

> TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC

First instinct is USDS stands for usds.gov and it literally turned into nationalized social media. Upon further research USDS is apparently short for U.S. Data Security. WTF is with this naming. Imagine TikTok DHS (Digital High School) JV.

Wired is inappropriately US-centric. This is "TikTok US", not TikTok.

Is this why the location suggestions on my posts used to be so wildly inaccurate? Because they weren't collecting precise location?

To be more precise: TikTok in the US is now collecting more data about its users.

TikTok across Europe and Asia is still run by TikTok Pte Ltd, the ByteDance subsidiary in Singapore, under the old EULA.