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Techcrunch tiktok1/15/2024 ![]() ![]() users’ data to Oracle’s cloud to further limit access from staff in China. Instead, that letter was focused more on how TikTok had been working to move its U.S. users’ data, after BuzzFeed News’ damning report on the matter. senators in June 2022 to answer follow-up questions about Chinese ByteDance employees’ access to TikTok U.S. The biometrics issue also didn’t come up in the letter TikTok sent to a group of U.S. When Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) followed up with TikTok for more information after that hearing, the question about facial recognition and voiceprints hadn’t been included on the list of questions TikTok returned to her office later that year in December. Senators’ inquiries about the app’s use of biometrics, as the question brought up during the October 2021 hearing was essentially dodged at the time. Notably, this is the first time the company has responded to U.S. (TikTok, of course, has hundreds of filters and effects in its app, so analyzing how each one works independently would take technical expertise and time.) ![]() users in the first place because of how this process works at a technical level. In other words, the TikTok exec saying that ByteDance employees in China would have no way of collecting this data from TikTok’s U.S. And as soon as it’s applied - like that filter is applied and posted - that data is deleted,” Pappas said. All of that information is stored only in your device. ” … the way that we use facial recognition, for example, would be is if we’re putting an effect on the creator’s video - so, you were uploading a video and you wanted to put sunglasses or dog ears on your video - that’s when we do facial recognition. She further explained that such data collection was only used for video effects and stored locally on users’ devices, where it’s subsequently deleted. Noting that everyone has their own definition of what “biometrics” means, Pappas claimed TikTok did not use “any sort of facial, voice or audio, or body recognition that would identify an individual.” Pappas didn’t directly answer the question with a simple yes or no but rather went on to clarify how TikTok defines biometric data. She also wanted to know if it was possible for this biometric data to be accessed by anyone in China. To learn more, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) today asked TikTok’s representative for the hearing, its c hief operating officer, Vanessa Pappas, if the biometric data of Americans had ever been accessed by or provided to any person located in China. The policy language was vague as it didn’t clarify whether it was referring to federal law, state laws or both, nor did it explain why, exactly, this information was being collected or how it might be shared. laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints.” TikTok’s earlier privacy policy change had introduced a new section called “Image and Audio Information” under the section “Information we collect automatically.” Here, it detailed the types of images and audio that could be collected, including “biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under U.S. Today, the tech company was again asked about its intentions regarding this data collection practice during a Senate hearing focused on social media’s impact on homeland security. users, including “faceprints and voiceprints” - a concerning change that the company declined to detail at the time or during a subsequent Senate hearing held last October. Last year, TikTok quietly updated its privacy policy to allow the app to collect biometric data on U.S.
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