TikTok steals personal information from smartphones

Enthusiasts from around the world who love picking software on phones and tablets have agreed on a new service. According to experts, TikTok is stealing personal information from smartphones. One could not have paid attention to the message if 2-3 people had said so. However, dozens of programmers posted their evidence on social networks. And this problem quickly gained worldwide proportions.

TikTok steals personal information from smartphones

 

It is not just about collecting data on iron electronics, as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter do. What is most interesting is that they don’t even hide it - this is clearly stated in the license agreement for the programs. Information for social projects is needed to adapt the application to the hardware of smartphones. And the TikTok service brazenly builds a tunnel to the server, through which it freely picks up the following types of information:

 

• Smartphone hardware (hardware ID, processor type, memory size, screen resolution, and so on).
• Used applications (installed, remote, running, often launched).
• Data on network settings (IP, MAC, ID of the router and its wireless settings, type LTE).
• GPS positioning (current position, route, saved places).
• User address book, contact numbers, birthdays, ringtones.

 

In fact, TikTok is a spyware program that discredits the owner of the smartphone. And this is not the first bell, but a serious security problem that urgently needs to be addressed. Naturally, if the owner of a tablet or phone is important own informational integrity.

 

Is it all so bad with the service

 

On the other hand, TikTok steals personal information from smartphones, which the owner does not even hide. GPS navigation is known to Google, as is the address book, which synchronizes automatically with any device. And, by the way, it helps the owner if he has lost or broken his phone. All other data is not interesting to many at all. After all, the main thing is to get access to the Internet. And what kind of routing is there, it doesn’t matter. The router cannot be broken remotely according to the received information.

 

 

In general, it remains to wait until one of the owners of smartphones decides to sue the Chinese TikTok service. And, most likely, the first to "shoot" the Americans, who are in full swing trade war with Huawei. Why not remove your competitor Youtube from the IT services market.