If you allow TikTok to access your phone contacts or social network contacts, TikTok collects names, phone numbers, and email addresses of your contacts and matches them against TikTok's user database.
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This provision means TikTok collects personal data about people who are not TikTok users and have not consented to any TikTok data collection, raising third-party privacy concerns.
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 →When you sync your phone contacts with TikTok, the personal data of your contacts, including people who do not use TikTok, is collected and processed by TikTok; those individuals have no direct ability to control or object to this data collection.
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"If you choose to sync your phone contacts, we will access and collect information such as names, phone numbers, and email addresses, and match that information against existing users of the Platform. If you choose to share your social network contacts, we will collect your public profile information as well as names and profiles of your social network contacts.Excerpt from TikTok Ads's TikTok Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision engages GDPR Articles 6 and 14 (lawful basis for and transparency obligations toward data subjects whose data is obtained from third parties), CCPA/CPRA (which may apply to personal information of …
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This provision means TikTok collects personal data about people who are not TikTok users and have not consented to any TikTok data collection, raising third-party privacy concerns.
When you sync your phone contacts with TikTok, the personal data of your contacts, including people who do not use TikTok, is collected and processed by TikTok; those individuals have no direct ability to control or object to this data collection.
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