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TikTok will start collecting biometric data like ‘faceprints and voiceprints’ from your posts
This comes after the company settled a recent lawsuit over data collection.

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TikTok has become the latest company to add a hefty revision to its privacy policy. The company has now updated its policy to better reflect the type of information that it collects from users. Most notably this update was issued to let users know that
This privacy policy update comes after
That leads us to today.
“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.”
In addition to using this data for some of the features available on the app, TikTok has confirmed that this data can and will be used for targeted advertising and content recommendation. The latter part of that is absolutely necessary for the platform, which thrives on recommending rabbit holes of content to its users.
While nobody loves hearing that companies are collecting our data, it is nice when they are transparent about it.
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