Why was TikTok Banned ? What was TikTok Doing
TikTok was a data collection service that was thinly-veiled as a social network, for tons of data few rupees were paid to TikToker’s. It use to get information on you, your contacts, or your device, Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc), Other apps you have installed. Privacy Violated to the core. Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name), Whether or not you're rooted/jailbroken. Some variants of the app had GPS pinging enabled at the time, roughly once every 30 seconds - this is enabled by default if you ever location-tag a post IIRC. They set up a local proxy server on your device for "transcoding media", but that can be abused very easily as it has zero authentication. The scariest part of all of this is that much of the logging they're doing is remotely configurable, and unless you reverse every single one of their native libraries and manual