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What you need to know about TikTok

Caute_cautim — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:18:53 GMT

HI All

An interesting piece about TikTok and its abundant features, which keep on causing harm to others, often without their knowledge: Why should never use it at all. Let alone for social interactions.

https://medium.com/dark-roast-security/why-you-need-to-delete-your-tiktok-account-90aa235d4c49

Regards

Caute_Cautim

Re: What you need to know about TikTok

JoePete — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:39:07 GMT

A well-detailed argument. Of course, the same points (perhaps not to the same extent) hold for most apps:

They collect more data than they need
There's no assurance their users are of age or otherwise capable of full consent
Privacy issues abound
No transparency as to how the app works (I suppose the exception might be some open source app, but you still never know what happens on the backend).

Ultimately, the challenge in the professional world is by the time kids enter the workforce, they have been conditioned to embrace these things almost reflexively for a decade or more. Bad habits form young.