Days later, on Jan. 23, TikTok introduced new Terms of Service for users. So far, the transition has not been smooth. Users immediately raised privacy concerns over the new TOS, taking to X with posts like this:
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.TikTok also says it will collect "precise location data," unless users opt out. This will let the service collect user's exact coordinates instead of a general city or region, that the company will use to serve "customized ads and other sponsored content."
Other than that, the terms remain largely the same as they were before. TikTok says it collects data that is user-provided, inferred, or contextual, that includes location data, age, email, phone numbers, chat messages, metadata on anything you upload, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, immigration status, and more. Then it uses that data to advertise to you, to "infer additional information about you," train its algorithm, and basically anything else it's legally allowed to use it for.
Opting out of TikTok's data collection
Credit: Stephen JohnsonAccusations of TikTok censorship
Along with promising to delete the app over data-collection worries, many TikTokers are alleging that the platform is censoring or throttling posts based on politics, particularly videos related to the shooting of Alex Pretti. On the #TikTokCensorship hashtag on X, users report that the Democratic Party's TikTok videos have gone from millions of views to zero views and that the platform is censoring videos about Jeffrey Epstein as well as other subjects.
It's too early to tell whether these reports are a result in changes in TikTok's algorithm or the result of a technical glitch. TikTok released a statement blaming videos with zero views and other performance issues on a "cascading system failure" caused by a power outage:
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.TikTok's new management vowed last month to retrain the platform's recommendation algorithm "on US user data to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation." What being free of "outside manipulation" looks like in a practical sense has yet to be seen.
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