Holy crap that’s bad, and that’s why I want nothing to do with TikTok, ever.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/?sh=1ebd75e87da5
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.

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@thelinuxEXP My question is, every other social media (maybe except for open source federated stuff) does the same. But because it’s based in the US and works in the interest of the US government, they don’t give a crap. But the moment another country competes with them, suddenly they care about data protection.