I've heard that before, but what personal information are they gathering? That I give likes to girls with big tits that dance around?
GPS, Keystrokes, call log, site tracking, etc.
Tik Tok has very famously (and recently) gotten in trouble again for this because even when settings are turned “off” they are being logged and stored.
As mentioned, nobody gives a fuck about you. But all of the above information of members of the military and federal government using Tik Tok is a gold mine of data and intel. NSA would kill for access to that information of our number 1 adversary. (which, ironically is China)
Average Joe using Tik Tok vs. the aforementioned military/Government officials using it is two completely different things.
It’s the same thing as when Hillary got in trouble for using her personal cell phone while traveling and running a backup server full of emails when she was the Secretary of State. I was working in DC when that went down and people at all levels were shocked.