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TikTok unlawfully tracks your shopping habits – and your use of dating apps

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Online & Mobile tracking TikTok not only tracks its users while they are using the TikTok app itself, but it is increasingly integrated with many other websites and apps. For example, TikTok was able to track a person’s Grindr usage on his smartphone. However, that’s not all: In addition to tracking users across the digital space, TikTok also refuses to provide an interested users with a copy of all of their personal data. Therefore, noyb has filed two complaints against TikTok and its data-sharing partners AppsFlyer and Grindr. Complaint against TikTok for incomplete answer of access requestComplaint against TikTok, AppsFlyer and Grindr for data sharingUnlawful tracking across apps. It’s no secret that TikTok is rather data hungry. After all, the popular video platform’s algorithm seems to know exactly what content users want to see. However, it’s not well known that TikTok also tracks you while using other apps. A user found out about this unlawful tracking practice through an access

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