TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
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Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#2I found the actual report this is based on even more interesting:
https://app.urlgeni.us/blog/new-research-across-200-ios-apps...
Just a few of the highlights:
Magazine apps had the highest number of total network contacts (28), and the highest percentage of third party domain contacts (93%)
Social apps, followed by Games apps, made the fewest number of network contacts, 6 and 7 respectively.
Apps making the most number network contacts included iHeartRadio (56), Wall Street Journal (48), ESPN (42), Popeyes (42), and WattPad (36)
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#3I feel like TikTok is significantly underdiscussed, almost like the tech and business press are assuming it's a flash-in-the-pan more similar to Snapchat than Facebook. It is almost certainly having a major impact on the business of some of the most prominent publicly traded companies in the US, yet there are just a handful of articles discussing their impact on Facebook's disastrous quarterly results.
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#4We should be aware that any free app that we can use has its business model or any method that somehow benefits the company.
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#5It's not unclear at all. It's Chinese data harvesting software. They'll do token public appeasement to avoid negative pressure, but every feature in the app is designed to collect biometrics and behavioral data.
China is not a good faith operator. Given the data needed to influence public opinion and voting, they will engage in manipulation favorable to their interests. That alone is sufficient to run tiktok at a loss, but the market manipulation possible, advertisement platform potential, and other monetization makes it look like just another app.
Google's been caught red handed deliberately manipulating political content.
The idea that tiktok isn't used for the same type of manipulation is dangerously naive.
There's a need for social media manipulation watchdogs that can monitor content being delivered to different users so the companies and countries involved can be held accountable.
It's sad that a massively scaled invasion of privacy can only be countered by more surveillance. Because of the ephemeral nature of tiktok interactions, the only way to combat manipulation is to surveil the content being delivered to user feeds and compare subsequent opinion poling and purchases.
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#6I feel like TikTok is significantly underdiscussed, almost like the tech and business press are assuming it's a flash-in-the-pan more similar to Snapchat than Facebook. It is almost certainly having a major impact on the business of some of the most prominent publicly traded companies in the US, yet there are just a handful of articles discussing their impact on Facebook's disastrous quarterly results.
Facebook has generated so much well-earned hate that even the most nationalistic Americans aren't going to come to its defense.
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#7I found the actual report this is based on even more interesting: https://app.urlgeni.us/blog/new-research-across-200-ios-apps... Just a few of the highlights: Magazine apps had the highest number of total network contacts (28), and the highest percentage of third party domain contacts (93%) Social apps, followed by Games apps, made the fewest number of network contacts, 6 and 7 respectively. Apps making the most num…
Revenue streams.
These network contacts provide $$$ to those companies. They're low effort, easy revenue for them. Privacy for customers be d*mned.
I once met a senior-level dev who worked for a company, they wouldn't have their own app on his phone, due to those invasive practices tracking his behaviour.
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#8I feel like TikTok is significantly underdiscussed, almost like the tech and business press are assuming it's a flash-in-the-pan more similar to Snapchat than Facebook. It is almost certainly having a major impact on the business of some of the most prominent publicly traded companies in the US, yet there are just a handful of articles discussing their impact on Facebook's disastrous quarterly results.
The aspect that worries me the most is the recommendation: Facebook and Twitter discovered a little late that they had the ability to to influence opinion with simple tweaks. That raised internal questions and that model is under close surveillance by people who have talked about those questions in public and who I know have and would raise, at least internally, their concerns. People can explore the updates from their friends and can identity ommissions. Snap is more secretive, but their employees are loud Californians who can about justice, they have access to journalists if they feel the need to push back. Users can also see updates from their friends and people their follow without just having to trust the flow.
I don’t believe that TikTok has a similar internal culture of debate. I haven’t seen anything published by their academic team. I don’t believe that you can check on your friend’s page to see what they posted lately. They are examples of topics that they have favoured or censored that was worrisome and they didn’t adress the controversy. The pool of possible content is much larger so there’s more opportunity to fill strategically.
I know people who work for one but not the other, so I understand that this influence my judgement but I believe that their are objective difference in company values and product design that make TikTok more able to manipulate.
I haven’t seen anyone discuss that, and I have plenty of people who discuss those questions profesionally in my feed.
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#9It's not unclear at all. It's Chinese data harvesting software. They'll do token public appeasement to avoid negative pressure, but every feature in the app is designed to collect biometrics and behavioral data. China is not a good faith operator. Given the data needed to influence public opinion and voting, they will engage in manipulation favorable to their interests. That alone is sufficient to run tiktok at a los…
> Google's been caught red handed deliberately manipulating political content
Sorry, do you have a better link handy? This primarily looks like a fundraising page.
Re: TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
#10straight to China