TIKTOK SPYING POWERS. Do you know that Tiktok has surveillance powers with capacity for monitoring your every keystroke when you click on its links? Because those links lead you not into your default browser. Instead, they lead you to a Tiktok in-app browser. There Tiktok can access every action you take, even when you enter passwords or credit card info.
Tiktok says that it has disabled this capacity. But the infrastructure and systems for accessing your keystrokes remain in place. Tiktok says they use them only for “debugging, troubleshooting and performance monitoring.” Yet the monitoring can easily shift to your keystroke inputs.
Instagram also has similar powers when you click on its links. Those clicks take you to an in-app browser that can track the data that you enter. And it can log your clicks on images and phone taps.
Another Big Brother
Moreover, Meta has a similar in-app browsers. But Meta claims that it uses them only “to enable safe, convenient and reliable experiences.” And that it needs extra code to access private data.
So do we need monitors to see what these companies are really monitoring? Yes. Because they are owned by powerful biased entities. US arch-enemy China heavily influences ByteDance, which owns Tiktok. Facebook—recently exposed for heavy influence on the 2020 US elections—owns Instagram. And Meta owns Facebook itself.
These “Big Brothers” now have the infrastructure for a future Antichrist global surveillance state. Pray God delays that future till every nation can choose the “hope and future” God plans (Jer. 29:11).
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