TikTok collected sensitive data about its users that violated the policies of Google’s Android mobile platform, according to The Wall Street Journal . The Chinese-owned video app, which is currently in talks to sell to Microsoft after being deemed a national security threat by the White House, harvested unique, unchangeable identifiers of users on Android devices until late last year, the...
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