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What happens when someone starts watching LGBTQIA+ content only on their cell phone and this data is stored by an application like TikTok? n3m19
In reporting to the The Wall Street Journal, former employees of the short video app confirmed that the Bytedance had a with numbers of s who watched content aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community and more. What worries the most was the amount of people who had access to this, despite the fact that the no longer exists since 2022. Understand the case.
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While facing reprisals from the US government over sending Americans' data to China, the TikTok got involved in a controversy that may make many people uncomfortable. Former employees of the application denounced that the company kept a with the identification number of all s that watched the well-known “LGBTQIA+ content”.
The segmentation of information is quite common in several social networks, but the problem here is the high number of people who had access to this list that identified s who are part of a minority group. This information capture took place between 2020 and 2021 and, despite having been signaled about a possible problem, the executives of the TikTok from the USA, United Kingdom and Australia did not prohibit that from continuing to be powered.
There is information that other segmentations on other subjects were also made, but this was not considered sensitive. Despite this, everything continued to be done as if it could not cause problems for the people who were on that list of those who watched LGBTQIA+ content.
What's the big problem with that? 1k4u6i
Keeping a record that identifies s who watch this type of content can cause major problems, as the person can suffer reprisals for being part of or even being seen as a member of the community LGBTQIA +.
In 2022 the LGBTQ GLAAD, an organization that defends rights and takes measures for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or more, filed a lawsuit for social networks to take measures to protect the data and privacy of these s. This was done after 84% of adult respondents said they had suffered some type of online prejudice when using social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter.
In addition, former employees recalled that, although only executives had access to the with the segmentation on who watched LGBTQIA+ content, cases of blackmail could occur if the owners were discovered.
What does TikTok say? 3s44u
When asked to comment on the creation of the great privacy problem, the social network of short videos says that “one of its focuses is to protect the data of its s”. In addition, the spokesperson claims that personal information, such as name and age, was not captured, despite being available on the platform's profiles.
TikTok does not identify potentially sensitive information such as sexual orientation or race of s based on what they choose to watch and does not even share such information. The collected data only represents the interests of s and is not necessarily a sign of someone's identity. Prior to data deletion, the application had protocols in place to ensure sensitive data was only seen by authorized employees.
TikTok spokesperson on monitoring who watched LGBT content.
Access to the with visualization data was more restricted in 2022 and the company also stopped doing this specific segmentation. In the same year, the controversial was excluded and the data contained therein were sent Texas Project, initiative that proposes the redirection of the data of US s to the storage company Oracle cloud.
During the proposal presented to the Biden istration, which has been trying to ensure that TikTok is not banned from the US, executives at Bytedance, the app's controller, stressed that no sensitive information would be ed on to Beijing.
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With information: The Wall Street Journal l PC Magazine l New York Post l Futurism
reviewed by Glaucon Vital in 8 / 5 / 23.
