Where do y’all stand on TikTok?

[gabester]

Speedy wrote:
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What if you don't have location services allowed for any apps except weather and maps?

Then they are going to know the weather where you live, they won’t need anymore ChiCom balloons you traitor.
Haha yeah no big deal!

But seriously, they'll trace your IP address to an approximate location, and possibly are also buying up and triangulating with cell tower data that egregiously is allowed to be sold by carriers to 3rd parties who then resell it. It is trivial for these tech companies to do that kind of data mining to identify and locate you.

None of this seems like a big deal until someone wants to target you. An enemy who wants to threaten you. A random who wants to stalk you. A state actor that wants to influence you. A terrorist that wants to radicalize you.

Here on MRF we are mostly savvy and at least moderately aware of the risks. There are so many out there who are not, and they can put each of us at risk.