Investigation into TikTok as risk to U.S. children's privacy urged by 4 U.S. senators

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/29/investigation-into-tiktok-as-r.html


The letter from 4 senators was addressed to Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of TikTok owner ByteDance.

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“Thoughts and prayers”, right? :thinking:

Your children are being trained to produce behaviours on demand that are useful to the controllers of the app in exchange for treats.

It is a subtle strategy, a long game, one where even the app controllers may be partially in the dark, but one with long term consequences that are too important to ignore.

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