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Location data alone of known US government officials (data TikTok gathers) is huge.

The US would have to subpoena Meta, and generally doesn’t because Meta would fight and win, DPRC just gets that info.




Technically you could use TikTok behind a VPN to prevent GeoIP and then disallow location access, but I get what you're saying. Very good point. I guess I was thinking from the perspective of me, an unimportant non-government official


Even you, random mid level employee at a gas company (for example) might find an anonymous email in your inbox, threatening to show your wife that you’ve been spending most of your lunches at your female coworkers house, unless you reply with your SSO creds.




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