What Information is TikTok Taking from You and Why?

In 2019 TikTok, the popular video-sharing service was accused of illegally taking information from users and sending it to China, where ByteDance, the app’s parent company is based. This led two U.S. senators to call for an investigation into the platform’s data collection methods, which inspired researchers at Check Point, an Israeli software company, to do an investigation of their own. This …