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TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of "immigration status" data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.

With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message.

The revised document details the U.S. joint venture’s conditions for using its service, including the specific location information it may collect.

Many users are also posting to social media about language found in the policy, which says that TikTok could collect sensitive information about its users, including their “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status.”

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    The servers have not been moved to the cloud, they are as of today still in Beijing, and when they do move to the cloud Beijing will maintain full access.

      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        From the article:

        TikTok’s backups of US user data continue to be held on TikTok’s proprietary servers in Virginia and in Singapore for now, TikTok said, but those will eventually be deleted as part of the ongoing switch to Oracle (ORCL). TikTok did not provide a timeframe for the planned deletion.

        Also pretty lame that CNN refused to point out that the services are centralized in Beijing, instead saying “Virginia and Singapore” which is an obvious lie by omission