Business TikTok Updates Its Terms and Conditions in the U.S.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

When TikTok users in the US opened the app today, they were greeted with a pop-up asking them to agree to the social media platform’s new terms of service and privacy policy before they could resume scrolling.

These changes are part of TikTok’s transition to new ownership. In order to continue operating in the US, TikTok was compelled by the US government to transition from Chinese control to a new, American-majority corporate entity. Called TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, the new entity is made up of a group of investors that includes the software company Oracle.

It's easy to tap Agree and keep on scrolling through videos on TikTok, so users might not fully understand the extent of changes they are agreeing to with this pop-up.

Now that it’s under US-based ownership, TikTok potentially collects more detailed information about its users, including precise location data. A spokesperson for TikTok USDS declined to comment.

Here are the three biggest changes to TikTok’s privacy policy that users should know about.

TikTok Adds Precise Location Tracking​

TikTok’s change in location tracking is one of the most notable updates in this new privacy policy. Before this update, the app did not collect the precise, GPS-derived location data of US users. Now, if you give TikTok permission to use your phone’s location services, then the app may collect granular information about your exact whereabouts. Similar kinds of precise location data is also tracked by other social media apps, like Instagram and X.

Old Privacy Policy:

We collect information about your approximate location, including location information based on your SIM card and/or IP address. In addition, we collect location information (such as tourist attractions, shops, or other points of interest) if you choose to add the location information to your User Content. Current versions of the app do not collect precise or approximate GPS information from US users.
New Privacy Policy:

We automatically collect certain information from you when you use the Services, including ... location information about your approximate location based on your device and network information, such as SIM card region, IP address, and device system settings. We also collect information, such as tourist attractions, shops, or other points of interest, if you choose to add the location to your user content. Also, if you choose to enable location services for the TikTok app within your device settings, we collect approximate or precise location information from your device.

TikTok Now Tracks AI Interactions​

Rather than an adjustment, TikTok’s policy on AI interactions adds a new topic to the privacy policy document. Now, users' interactions with any of TikTok’s AI tools explicitly fall under data that the service may collect and store. This includes any prompts as well as the AI-generated outputs. The metadata attached to your interactions with AI tools may also be automatically logged.

Old Privacy Policy:
(These AI interactions are not explicitly mentioned in the past policy.)

New Privacy Policy:
When you create an account, upload content, contact us directly, or otherwise use the Services, you may provide some or all of the following information … AI interactions, including prompts, questions, files, and other types of information that you submit to our AI-powered interfaces, as well as the responses they generate.
We automatically collect certain information from you when you use the Services, including … metadata that is automatically uploaded in connection with your user content, messages, or AI interactions, such as how, when, where, and by whom the user content was created, or message or prompt was sent. Metadata may also include information, such as your username, that enables your user content to be traced back to your account by other users.

TikTok Expands Its Ads Network​

This change to TikTok’s privacy policy may not be as immediately noticeable to users, but it will likely have an impact on the types of ads you see outside of TikTok. So, rather than just using your collected data to target you while using the app, TikTok may now further leverage that info to serve you more relevant ads wherever you go online. As part of this advertising change, TikTok also now explicitly mentions publishers as one kind of partner the platform works with to get new data.

Old Privacy Policy:
Advertisers, measurement, and other partners share information with us about you and the actions you have taken outside of the Platform, such as your activities on other websites and apps or in stores, including the products or services you purchased, online or in person. These partners also share information with us, such as mobile identifiers for advertising, hashed email addresses and phone numbers, and cookie identifiers, which we use to help match you and your actions outside of the Platform with your TikTok account.

New Privacy Policy:
Advertisers, publishers, and measurement and other partners provide us with information about you and the actions you have taken outside of our websites and apps, including the pages you visit, products or services you purchase, and apps you download. These partners also provide information such as mobile identifiers for advertising, hashed email addresses and phone numbers, and cookie identifiers, which we use to help measure the effectiveness of ads we serve and to better deliver ads to you on our websites and apps, or through TikTok Ad Network elsewhere online, depending on your ads settings.

 

[Lasagna4Dead]

Tldr. here's the info it will be collecting from you in short form.

Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information, as defined under applicable state privacy laws, such as information from users under the relevant age threshold, information you disclose in survey responses or in your user content about your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information. For example, we may process your financial information in order to provide you the goods or services you request from us or your driver’s license number in order to verify your identity. We may also collect precise location data, depending on your settings and as explained below. We process such sensitive personal information in accordance with applicable law, such as for permitted purposes under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Link to the article above:

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

Archive:

https://archive.is/ZzujE

 

[LurkingLunk]

Makes me wonder if anything changed other than the fact that they'll now tell you about the data collection. Some lawyer must have been shocked to hear how little they disclosed.

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

ICE using TikTok monetization data to track Illegals sounds like a great idea.

Just wait for that to happen and the left-wing retards will lose their fucking mind, after a decade of China gathering the same data without asking for permission, and nobody giving a shit.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

This sounds pretty reasonable. I'd like the location, identity, mental status, and financial details of all Tik-Tok users to be known at all times.

 

[Traummaschine]

Finally your data is safe.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Best part about this? The Tik-Tok brained zoomers aren't gonna stop using Tik-Tok. It is their opium.

Though you can bet your ass they'll crack down on anti Israel memes.

 

[furfaggot4faggotfur]

Makes me wonder if anything changed other than the fact that they'll now tell you about the data collection. Some lawyer must have been shocked to hear how little they disclosed.

I agree, I agree. I'm almost certain they knew things like religion, mental health, and such for advertising before. Though that may be on google's part with adsense. I'm not sure. SOMEONE/SOMETHING knows and it has been monetized.

Best part about this? The Tik-Tok brained zoomers aren't gonna stop using Tik-Tok. It is their opium.

The general attitude is: everybody already has my data so fuck it and I'll click agree anyway. There is not anything to lose.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

I'd like the location, identity, mental status, and financial details of all Tik-Tok users to be known at all times.

Well the mental status part is pretty easy to monitor - just put a load of zeros in the database.

 

[Daisy.Dooom]

I agree, I agree. I'm almost certain they knew things like religion, mental health, and such for advertising before. Though that may be on google's part with adsense. I'm not sure. SOMEONE/SOMETHING knows and it has been monetized.


The general attitude is: everybody already has my data so fuck it and I'll click agree anyway. There is not anything to lose.

Well the mental status part is pretty easy to monitor - just put a load of zeros in the database.

 

[A Log]

Spoiler: TL DR HERE - SCHIZO RANT BELOW

Having the nigger cattle agree to Tik Tok stealing every piece of their data (banking, location, shopping habits, visual data being catalogued, gender race, etc) is only a few steps from having the Murican nigger cattle agree to allow TikTok to allow control of banking, buying and other financial habits. Like the Chinese already do with Wechat. It may not be TikTok itself, but I absolutely see a future where it gets nationalized to gain access to its large stockpile of collected data .

Nightmare fuel. Collecting every bit of your data is only a few steps from being able to control all your data. This, coinciding with the US buyout, is consolidating a SHITLOAD of info into US Corporation control. Every single media and corpo with a strofront, from Amazon and Facebook, to MSNBC and every journo media company are absolutely gearing to buy up this info.

Being able to tie people's names, buying habits, voting habits, gun sales, EVERY BIT OF VISUAL INFO RECORDED AND TIED TO YOUR ACCOUNT, sifted through and catalogued by an AI into neat dossiers on every person alive in the US. That's near Godlike levels of information to know about a person

We're only a few steps from a future government nationalizing Tiktok, because they absolutely will, that will give them ABOVE china tier levels of control and influence that could allow a future hostile US government to fuck over its citizens, dissenters, those that vote the opposite, anybody with an opinion a future hostile government would want crushed. It will be tried again, they already did it once.

Hope you guys are ready for the Revelations path of history. Cause this is the path we're going. This is the fruits that will be born from this decision. Call me schizo, optimistic, don't care. Even an atheist can tell all power, be it government and corporation, is beginning to congeal and flow together into one singular massive entity. And this will be one of the future swords that absolutely will be used to carry it out.

But don't doom about it bro's. Just don't use TikTok like the nigger cattle and things should be fine.