New details emerge of TikTok allegedly surveilling users
TikTok maintained a list of users who watched lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender content, which was accessible to the company’s employees for at least a year, former employees told the Wall Street Journal.had access to the list’s data and previously controlled who could use a dashboard to view the information about users watching information categorized as LGBT.
Tech platforms tracking users’ behavior and inferring their preferences is a way for companies to select content and ads to show users online. Some of TikTok’s workers, however, feared the data their company collected could be used for blackmail and said viewers of gay content were not the only topics tracked in TikTok’s data, according to the Journal.“Safeguarding the privacy and security of people who use TikTok is one of our top priorities,”
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