With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy policy after being alerted to the changes through an in-app message.

The revised document details the U.S. joint venture’s conditions for using its service, including the specific location information it may collect.

Many users are also posting to social media about language found in the policy, which says that TikTok could collect sensitive information about its users, including their “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status.”

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    9 months ago

    A rule of journalism: Unless it’s meant literally, when a news headline includes words like blasts, blisters, bombshell, burns, claps back, drags, epic self-own, explodes, freaks out, goes viral, humbled, humiliated, melts down, mind-blowing, rages, rips, roasts, shocking, skewers, slams, staggering, stuns, or trolls, find a better source.

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      9 months ago

      Thank you. Once my eyes hit a word like that I don’t even continue reading. It’s a major reason I left reddit, because they barely have any non-baiting news anymore.