Is TikTok a Chinese Cambridge Analytica Data Bomb Waiting to Explode?

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43 points·zachguo··5 comments

I doubt that TikTok has the capacity to mine meaningful data. From what I've seen it's mostly teenagers doing lip-sync and making memes. Maybe marketers can establish a link between certain preferences of memes and proclivity to buy certain goods? Perhaps there's some potential for data monetization.

But this is nowhere near the level of analysis that Cambridge Analytic did on Facebook. The data Facebook collects is way more useful, and even contains people's estimated political leanings (which are fairly accurate in my analysis).

Could be a long-term investment, one of those teens will rise up to be have political or business power and who knows what they can leverage on them. Then again it could be just a fun app. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/grindr-china-...

Dear Mr. politician, it seems the video you uploaded 30 years ago sing a particular song which directly contradicts your current manifesto which claims the usage of traditional words to express color is racism and you propose to use RGB value instead for politically correctness reason. By the way, on a completely unrelated fact off course, but we offer a protection service.

It's always both.

In the early days my TikTok feed was nothing but military and law enforcement personnel. It felt like they were gathering information on military bases.

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