TikTok Spied on Me. Why?

https://www.ft.com/content/0c0f9670-2e3a-4af8-bcd5-85e314f6ac5e

by fasthandle • 3 years ago

47 12 3 years ago

fasthandle• 3 years ago

b3nji• 3 years ago

Probably the same reason Google, and Facebook spy on you. Behavioral surplus to exploit, and profit from your perceived persona to advertisers.

In short, profiling, and assuming they know all about you to promote, deny, or manipulate various product price points.

Products from the physical, to services, to bank and mortgage costs.

puppymaster• 3 years ago

always the same, tiring whataboutism.

grayhatter• 3 years ago

always the same, tiring whataboutism

you keep using that word... whataboutism... I do not think it means what you think it means.

krageon2• 3 years ago

Whataboutism: the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.

This is not what happened here - here, the issue was explained with an analagous, well-known issue. That issue was not being raised, it was used in an illustrative way.

Reubend• 3 years ago

That's completely different. TikTok employees specifically accessed her data to identify her sources. That type of behavior, which can reasonably be characterized as "spying", is not the same as what Google is doing.

hulitu• 3 years ago

TikTok employees specifically accessed her data to identify her sources.

There was a highly publicised case at Facebook some years ago with the same behaviour.

If you think that only TikTok does that, think again.

patz• 3 years ago

Unsurprisingly, my relationship with TikTok’s press office was tense. Though I was unaware of it, at the same time TikTok was pushing back on reports of a toxic workplace, several employees had decided to surveil my phone, tracking my location in hopes of finding my sources.

And as you can imagine, the follow up questions by the author about the incident were not answered.

This is not the same as Google or Facebook, or any other giants spying on people.

If it was really merely some TikTok's employees' own decision, then just like it's working atmosphere, it's culture is toxic.

TikTok Spied on Me. Why?

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