TikTok Can Now Collect Biometric Data
This is probably worth paying attention to:
A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content. This includes things like “faceprints and voiceprints,” the policy explained. Reached for comment, TikTok could not confirm what product developments necessitated the addition of biometric data to its list of disclosures about the information it automatically collects from users, but said it would ask for consent in the case such data collection practices began.
echo • June 14, 2021 10:41 AM
Oh, the old codification of intent wheeze. We know where this is heading before they begin. That’s where the US is with its “freedom of speech” and institutional hands off approach to business regulation, and privacy backdoors via judicial rulings on ownership of private data and the Patriot Act etcetra.
TikTok is the international version of Douyin as it is known in China.
Ooh look. Zoom is owned by a Chinese-American.
I’ve never used TikTok nor Zoom regardless of whoever the ultimate owner is. They strike me as being so much mind pollution and junk. Ditto Whatsapp and Telegram Messenger etctera.
I guess being European and within the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights has its pluses. The ECHR is really just a container for UN human rights obligations the US by and large choses to ignore so there is a lot of shooting itself in the foot by the US. I have been told by a US “certified professional” in law that the US versus UN treaty obligations is essentially settled law but in my opinion it’s more of a stitch up by out of touch nodding dog long in the tooth job titles. China and Russia too when you get down to it.