From what I read, I think the issue is people keep claiming it does all this various "spyware" stuff, when it sounds like it's doing nothing that any other app could do, given the (what appear to be) lax permissions of android/ios.
If people are so worried about what tiktok can be gathering outside of the app, that is a problem for apple & google.
For this, I think it's 100% overblown what people think tiktok is doing. It just doesn't make sense. If it was really some kind of massive spyware, I agree apple/google would be all over this.. but they aren't.
This comes down to a lack of trust in China obviously, and I don't think there's anything really more concrete than that.
China is just US public enemy #1 because it's a geopolitical and economic threat. The US doesn't want to export data to them for free. It's funny America sometimes gives China flak for banning Google/FB/etc because they wanted to control their data (on top of national security stuff but I think the data is just important). And now the US is doing the same.
Yep, I think you're right. Apple needs to put permissions on things like the clipboard for all apps. I certainly don't support the CCP, but extending that distrust to TikTok is somewhat illogical when there is no good evidence of TikTok doing anything that other apps don't do.
This also makes sense (in addition to another answer that I said made sense). I didn't look much into the spyware scandals. "This app isn't any more spyware than many other popular, accepted apps, and people focused in on this app and made a big deal of it" is believable to me because I've seen it before.
Can you please point to any evidence or source? I've never heard of this happening (beyond what every other app can do in terms of downloading and uploading data) and the wording isn't clear as to what exactly you mean.
>It can upload and download whatever to your phone.
>No other app is even close to allowed that.
So an app that is on like a billions people phone is knowingly doing things against google & apples app store policy.. yet they choose to let one of the largest apps exploit them?
If you can read the above and not see why there is a pretty large obvious logic flaw then it's not even worth attempting to convince you otherwise...
If people are so worried about what tiktok can be gathering outside of the app, that is a problem for apple & google.
For this, I think it's 100% overblown what people think tiktok is doing. It just doesn't make sense. If it was really some kind of massive spyware, I agree apple/google would be all over this.. but they aren't.
This comes down to a lack of trust in China obviously, and I don't think there's anything really more concrete than that.