Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, November 3rd, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today is Tik-Tock still in danger of running afoul of

government bands.

What's-app gets groups.

Gmail gets package tracking.

Instagram gets NFT minting.

Patreon gets video hosting.

Layoffs come for Stripe.

Yes, there were some new Twitter details too, and is the Adobe

Figma deal in trouble. Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. I kind of want to front load today with non Twitter news if I can for our sanity if

nothing else so how about this Tic-Toc plans to update its privacy policy on December 2nd

to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including

staff in China, can access the data of European users, quoting the Guardian.

The Chinese-owned social video app is updating its privacy policy to confirm that

staff in countries, including China, are allowed to access user data to ensure their experience of the platform is

consistent, enjoyable, and safe.

The other countries where European user data could be accessed by Tik-Toc staff include Brazil, Canada, and Israel, as well as the US and

Singapore where European user data is stored currently.

Data could be used to conduct checks on aspects of the platform, including the performance of its algorithms

which recommend content to users and detect vexatious automated accounts.

Tik-Tok has previously acknowledged that some user data is accessed by employees of the company's parent

bite dance in China. The Privacy Policy Update which applies to the UK, the

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