Do they mean they're collecting faceprints and voiceprints of people viewing the videos? Or they're just doing it on videos that people are willingly uploading?
Good question, I'd like to know this too.
TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
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Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#12Great news. The fact that a company from the unfriendly country collects biometrical data may finally provoke enough outrage that such data collection gets forbidden for everyone .
except this is not new.. what is happening here?
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#13Great news. The fact that a company from the unfriendly country collects biometrical data may finally provoke enough outrage that such data collection gets forbidden for everyone .
One can dream.
But, I would imagine any such hypothetical regulation would have specific carve-outs for the US-based companies collecting the same/similar data. Because $.
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#14Do they mean they're collecting faceprints and voiceprints of people viewing the videos? Or they're just doing it on videos that people are willingly uploading?
Probably also on the people who involuntarily appear in the videos (in the background or so).
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#15I wonder if Illinois residents will be eligible for another pay out like with Facebook and Google when they collected this data. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/did-you-receive-a-illi...
Exactly what I was thinking. Who's responsible for filing these class action lawsuits, anyway?
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#16A security researcher wrote an article while back and it was shocking to see how much data TikTok was collecting: - biometrics - what words are mentioned in the video, popularity - surrounding wifi, location data - your contacts (presumably to cross link to social media platforms) I just can't believe that a powerful country like America is letting a not-so-friendly military/civilian complex infiltrate it for somewha…
would you not make the same argument for google?
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#17Great news. The fact that a company from the unfriendly country collects biometrical data may finally provoke enough outrage that such data collection gets forbidden for everyone .
Won't hold my breath. The unfortunate truth is that most people aren't really bothered by any of this and/or fail to grasp it entirely.
Bringing up that TikTok collects biometric data will usually be met with blank stares and/or someone implying that it's a conspiracy theory.
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#18I don't think we need pandasecurity to tell us that. I believe the same info was/is gathered by facebook, google and more or less Apple. I guess double standards are still easier and better for the U.S instead to "empower" the individuals to own their data and secure their communication.
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#19This isn't new [0] even as shown in June 2021 last year where we have them already admitting they collect this data and shouldn't surprise anyone that after this [1] they are unsurprisingly screwing their users data in a worse way than Facebook was and now you have reports of China who have always been surveilling their user data (even for US users); Also expected and unsurprisingly.
There is no defending this indefensible spyware which is beyond worse than Facebook and it is really the direct opposite of "The best thing to have happened to the Internet." [2]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151067
[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...
Re: TikTok updated privacy policy to collect faceprints and voiceprints (2021)
#20A security researcher wrote an article while back and it was shocking to see how much data TikTok was collecting: - biometrics - what words are mentioned in the video, popularity - surrounding wifi, location data - your contacts (presumably to cross link to social media platforms) I just can't believe that a powerful country like America is letting a not-so-friendly military/civilian complex infiltrate it for somewha…
TikTok is a spectacular example of both human- and democracy-hacking. It's like an authoritarian regime saw facebook in 2012 and said, "hold my beverage of choice."