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Report: TikTok Collected Persistent Identifiers From Android Phones in Apparent Violation of Google Policy – Gizmodo Australia
TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app that Donald Trump’s administration is incoherently threatening to ban from the U.S. and may be gearing up for a court fight in response, quietly collected persistent identifiers from Android devices for 15 months, according…
TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app that Donald Trumps administration is incoherently threatening to ban from the U.S. and may be gearing up for a court fight in response, quietly collected persistent identifiers from Android devices for 15 months, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
According to the Journal, an analysis of numerous versions of TikTok found that the app used a technical loophole to collect MAC addresses from Android devices in the 15 months ending in November 2019…
