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minus-squareSendPicsofSandwiches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·19 hours agoI’ll see if I can find the write up, but the app was reverse engineered and it did collect an alarming amount of personal data that an app wouldn’t normally be allowed to. Also their algorithm has been criticized for ways it serves political content https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/ This is what came up first and had comment from the person who reverse engineered it.
minus-squaredx1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·19 hours agoRandom anonymous reddit user who didn’t compile his findings into a report pointing to the places in the app binary where these things happen. OK.
I’ll see if I can find the write up, but the app was reverse engineered and it did collect an alarming amount of personal data that an app wouldn’t normally be allowed to. Also their algorithm has been criticized for ways it serves political content
https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/
This is what came up first and had comment from the person who reverse engineered it.
Random anonymous reddit user who didn’t compile his findings into a report pointing to the places in the app binary where these things happen. OK.