Comment by cloudking | Hacker News Reader

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TikTok Android data collected: https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.zhiliao...

- Location

- Personal info: Name, Email, User IDs, Address, Phone Number

- Financial info: User payment info, purchase history, other financial info

- Messages: Other in-app messages

- Photos & Videos

- Audio voice & sound recordings

- Contacts

- App activity: App interactions, in-app search history, other user generated content

- Web browsing history

- App info and performance: Crash logs, diagnostics, other performance data

- Device or other IDs

TikTok iOS data collected: https://apps.apple.com/ug/app/tiktok-videos-music-live/id835...

- Purchases: Purchase History

- Financial Info: Payment Info, Other Financial Info

- Location

- Contact Info: Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info

- Contacts

- User Content: Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Customer Support, Other User Content

- Search History

- Browsing History

- Identifiers

- Usage Data

- Diagnostics

What purchases, from what source? Same with financial information.

Contact info and contacts, only if you allow it?

User content, what does that even mean?

Search and browsing history is likely just from within the app, I don't see how they would get it from elsewhere.

Purchases probably meaning the in-app purchase for things you can send to people on TikTok lives. I have seen app dev advice that if you store purchase info on your server in any way, instead of it being a local only purchase, then you must check the box that you collect purchase info.

Which is exactly what they have done, considering this list is literally from the App Store page. This was only explained after the comment was edited and provides quite a lot of context to the list.

Updated with more context and source links. The real question is, why does it need all this data to show you videos?

Most of that data is needed to allow you to create videos and pay creators. The app does more than just show videos.

We all know the answer to that. It’s a free product, so you are the product.

I'm not an Android dev but I wonder if its ALL PURCHASE history or just access to purchase history and info in regards to the app like if you buy stuff in-app. Likely the latter if I had to guess.

I think without the context, it sounds extremely nefarious. But just as you, I think most of this data is things simply from within the app itself. Or data you explicitly grant access to.

And here's Twitter...

https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel/status/1589700721121058817

A lot of the Android ones are marked as Optional.

search and browsing history, like from Safari and not from whatever dodgy embedded browser tt has?

Of course its from their in-app browser and the stuff you type while inside it.

They cannot obtain all your history from Safari/Chrome/FF on your phone.

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