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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup ya beautiful bastard. |
0:01.6 | Hope you've been a fantastic Monday. |
0:03.3 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show, buckle up. |
0:06.0 | Hit that like button and let's just jump into it. |
0:08.4 | And first up, let's continue to talk about |
0:10.1 | this developing situation and concern around TikTok. |
0:12.8 | And you know, we've been talking about this app |
0:14.0 | more and more in recent days. |
0:15.2 | You have places like India just straight out banning it. |
0:17.1 | You have government officials in Australia |
0:18.6 | and the United States saying they're considering doing the same. And so you know with this, more and more we're seeing people fall into two main camps, those that want to delete the app, to ban the app, and others who want to save it. |
0:27.0 | But first, let's kind of dive into the actual concerns that people have, right? Washington Post actually doing a thorough piece about why people are wary of TikTok, and also looking even deeper to see if those worries are legitimate. |
0:39.3 | So what does TikTok actually get from you? Well, according to Fowler, it knows every video you watch, how long you watch it, the messages you send in the app, as well as what country you're in, your internet address and device. |
0:48.3 | Also, in some cases, you can also allow it to know your exact location, contacts, other social network connections, age, |
0:54.3 | and phone number. And so with this, because TikTok is owned by a Chinese company called |
0:57.6 | ByteDance, many, including the US government, are worried that China could collect all this information. |
1:01.6 | But according to Fowler's report, right now there's not tangible evidence that TikTok is actually |
1:04.9 | sending data to China, though there's always the possibility they could be doing it in a more secretive way. And part of the reason he's saying that is he and Patrick Jackson, |
1:11.7 | the chief technology officer at a privacy company called Disconnect, |
1:14.2 | watched the data flowing out of TikTok |
1:15.9 | and they didn't see anything being sent |
1:17.2 | to addresses that were in China. |
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