TikTok skirts Apple and Google protections to grab user data: Report

Video social networking app TikTok reportedly infringes on user privacy in more ways than previously understood.

TikTok is able to circumvent code screenings by the Apple and Google app stores and can even change the app’s behavior and capabilities without users’ knowledge, thereby giving its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and third parties access to all user data, according to two major cybersecurity studies recently obtained by the Wrap.