Tiktok has just widen ways to collect data on your face and voice

An update to the Tiktok Privacy Policy this week has been technically legal to automatically collect data on you and your activities in the application. This update includes notes on biometric identifiers – such as fingerprint and “VoicePrint” analyzes. In the notes, Tiktok suggest that they will seek “all required permissions” to get these data, but only “if necessary by law”.

According to TechCrunch, in the latest version of the United States Privacy Policy for Tiktok, you will find changes to “Information and Audio Information”. Refer to the registration navigation machine for this change from June 4, 2021. Scroll to “Information we collect automatically and compare to what has been displayed from May 30, 2021.

Deletion of this zone is a sentence as follows: “We also lies the information of your subscriber with your activity on our platform on all your devices using your email, your phone number or your similar information . ” This could be good – maybe Tiktok decided to follow slightly fewer users than before – or at least that’s what it looks like if it’s the only change you notice. The rest seems to move in the opposite direction.

An entire section has been added under “Information on image and audio”. Tiktok adds a note that it can collect information “on the images and the auto belonging to your user content”. Tiktok notes that they can collect information by “identifying objects and landscapes that appear, existence and location in an image of the characteristics and attributes of face and body, the nature of the audio and the text spoken words in your user content. “

Tiktok Notes in their policy that these data can be collected to allow the following:

• Special video effects
• MODERATION OF CONTENT
• Demographic classification
• Content recommendations
• Advertising recommendations
• Operations not personally identified

As noted above, Tiktok also added a note on how they can “collect biometric identifiers and biometric information”. This can include facial prints and condominiums “of your user content.”

They also added a more global description of how they can collect information about the devices you use to access TikTok. Before, they included the IP address, unique device identifiers, model, mobile carrier, time zone, screen resolution, operating names, application names, file names, File types, “typing patterns or rhythms” and platform.

Now, TikTok also includes the user agent, network type, “advertising identifiers”, device identifiers, battery status, audio settings, and connected audio devices. They expanded their ability to collect information about devices, to do absolutely sure that if you connect to multiple devices, they “will be able to use your profile information to identify your activity between devices”.

Tiktok can also use “information collected from devices other than those you use to connect to the platform”. This effectively gives them the right to use audio that comes from devices connected to your smartphone – like connected microphones, smart speakers, etc.