I seem to recall Scott saying he was off facebook, but liked TikTok.
TikTok tracks biometric information, faceprints, voiceprints – TheBlaze
Chinese-owned TikTok made a quiet update to its privacy policy in the United States this week. The massively popular social video app gave itself permission to collect biometric data of U.S. users, which includes faceprints and voiceprints.
“We may collect information about the images and audio that are a part of your User Content, such as identifying the objects and scenery that appear, the existence and location within an image of face and body features and attributes, the nature of the audio, and the text of the words spoken in your User Content,” the new privacy policy that was introduced on Wednesday stated.
“We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your User Content,” TikTok said. “Where required by law, we will seek any required permissions from you prior to any such collection.”
TechCrunch reported, “Only a handful of U.S. states have biometric privacy laws, including Illinois, Washington, California, Texas and New York. If TikTok only requested consent, ‘where required by law,’ it could mean users in other states would not have to be informed about the data collection.”
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Thank you for the detailed posting. The gradual corruption of terms of service for these companies would make a very interesting study. I remember reading or hearing that Facebook once kept an archive of theirs but at one point started dropping the earlier versions.
Similar to the current plumbing of the depths of Fauci’s emails to determine what happened and when including any change in his thinking, a historical look at the TOS’s of Facebook and other purveyors of Big Tech–YouTube in particular–would serve, in my opinion, as invaluable insight into what promises were made to attract users and then broken as they became more dictatorial and censorious.
Part and parcel, I suspect, are the changes in policies and procedures of corporate giants.
How much of our good faith was betrayed by tech and corporate giants taking advantage of the fact that no one reads the terms of service much less has a choice to disagree with them once “addicted” to their product or service?
So many things to explore. So little time!
The most disturbing part of that Blaze article is the closing quote:
Our nation is selling itself and its security to the CCP and its affiliates:
This “selling our souls for convenience and entertainment” needs to stop.
Myspace and Friendster were the worst things to ever happen to online privacy, because while no one remembers them except for internet OGs like myself, they are the reason social media companies like facebook, twitter, and tiktok exist. Though as Bill brought up in a right angle (at least I think it was him), there is a theory that going back in time to kill baby Hitler wouldn’t do anything because we would eventually have “other Hitler” since human nature is inevitable, and we would have evil data stealing social media companies even if myspace didn’t happen.
oh yeah. The “baby Hitler” scenario .
Human nature has not changed in 3000 years. That’s why the Bible is an important book for Believer and Non-Believer. It is a case study in human behavior, and what we have to over come to be better people.
We can only teach the next generation that Freedom is not free. There is no such thing as a free lunch. The “problem of the commons”. Life is frequently not about a choice between Good and bad, but is about Tradeoffs.
As Bill is fond of saying, We have to mow the grass. We have to keep fighting back against the Left.
So we are going to have to do the hard work of migrating our Facebook and TikTok to other services.