Oh look! Chinese app TikTok accesses your iphone info, mic and camera.

[MarathonMike]

If you or your kids have the TikTok app running on your iPhone you may want to think twice about that. If it's Chinese technology you can count on them doing something to spy with it. Technical surveillance is one of their main tools for exerting control over their own people. The long term goal is to control the world with it.

TikTok Background Microphone Access Confirmed By iOS 14

TikTok caught using the iPhone microphone when the app is lingering in the background. Is the Chinese video sharing app spying on you? More info available here.

www.iphonetricks.org

 

[Muhammed]

The Trump administration is looking into a ban on tiktok. However I don't know how that would technically be feasible or legally enforceable. I haven't really thought about it much.

 

[esalla]

If you or your kids have the TikTok app running on your iPhone you may want to think twice about that. If it's Chinese technology you can count on them doing something to spy with it. Technical surveillance is one of their main tools for exerting control over their own people. The long term goal is to control the world with it.

TikTok Background Microphone Access Confirmed By iOS 14

TikTok caught using the iPhone microphone when the app is lingering in the background. Is the Chinese video sharing app spying on you? More info available here.

www.iphonetricks.org

FOX news is working for China because on the one hand they say tictok is dangerous then they promote it on the flip side

What moves! Dad performing The Weeknd dance challenge on TikTok with sons goes viral

Many other quarantined parents have been joining their children for the routine on TikTok.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Mindful]

The Trump administration is looking into a ban on tiktok. However I don't know how that would technically be feasible or legally enforceable. I haven't really thought about it much.

He’s managed to convince the UK about Huawei.

 

[Zorro!]

TikTok ‘Benadryl Challenge’ has killed at least one teen.

A new Internet dare, broadcast widely on teen-friendly TikTok, urges kids to overdose on the over-the-counter antihistamine Benadryl.

But the "Benadryl Challenge" has already killed one teen and sent others to the ER, experts warn.

One 15-year-old girl dead, other kids rushed to the hospital after similar incidents are popping up nationwide.

The Benadryl Challenge encourages users to overdose on the drug to achieve a hallucinatory state.

Kids between the ages of 6 and 12 should only take one tablet of the drug every four to six hours, while those older than 12 should only take up to two tablets over the same period of time. No one, no matter their age, should take more than six doses within 24 hours.

This challenge is to take 12 tablets at once, a potentially lethal amount.

Most of the teens who've harmed themselves during the Benadryl Challenge have experienced heart issues.

 

[Zorro!]

EVERYTHING WITHIN THE STATE, NOTHING OUTSIDE THE STATE, NOTHING AGAINST THE STATE: Lying Outlaw Slaver Beijing is publicizing its philosophy of how tech firms like TikTok must aid China’s rise.

Much of TikTok’s last year has been characterized by efforts to show it’s keeping a safe distance from the Chinese Communist Party, despite being owned by Chinese social media firm ByteDance. The latest iteration of that is TikTok’s deal with Oracle that will reportedly set up a new US entity to house the short video app, with the US software giant taking a minority stake and managing user data. But an “opinion” issued by the Communist Party, and publicized this week, might make it hard for TikTok to argue it’s fine for it to continue to be largely owned by ByteDance.

The proposed deal’s structure is already shaped by Beijing’s refusal to allow the US alone to determine TikTok’s fate. China made an outright sale difficult by imposing export controls on algorithms such as those used in the app. Following that, the Party this week spelled out its philosophy that the private sector and entrepreneurs must align ever more closely with its goals of advancing China’s development and “rejuvenating” the Chinese nation.

The decree lists several approaches for the Party to improve its influence over the private sector, including strengthening ideological and political guidance for entrepreneurs so they will be “politically sensible,” arming them with Xi Jinping Thought (a political doctrine developed by the Chinese president for consolidating the Party’s power), and building a team of “high-quality” entrepreneurs whom the Party can rely on “at critical moments.”

 

[Likkmee]

My phone has a wall plug and the same number for 16 years