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This collection encompasses biometric-adjacent data—specifically the existence and location of facial and body features—extracted from content users post, raising significant privacy implications beyond standard metadata collection.
Interpretive note: The excerpt references additional data types beyond those captured in the evidence span (e.g., audio characteristics). The canonical claim focuses on the primary and most sensitive data type—face and body feature location—as the primary proposition. Audio and other object/scenery identification are secondary independent propositions.
The updated policy changed the controlling entity from TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC to TikTok Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-registered company. The U.S.-specific privacy policy language was replaced with terms covering "other regions." Users previously governed under U.S. privacy protections are now subject to different jurisdictional terms.
View change record →If you upload or post videos, images, or audio as User Content, TikTok Ads may extract and collect data from that content, including information about faces and bodies visible in your images.
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"We may collect information about the videos, images and audio that are a part of your User Content, such as identifying the objects and scenery that appear, the existence and location within an image of face and body features...Excerpt from TikTok Ads's TikTok Privacy Policy
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This collection encompasses biometric-adjacent data—specifically the existence and location of facial and body features—extracted from content users post, raising significant privacy implications beyond standard metadata collection.
If you upload or post videos, images, or audio as User Content, TikTok Ads may extract and collect data from that content, including information about faces and bodies visible in your images.
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