TikTok collected device-specific addresses of users’ smartphones via its Android app for at least 15 months over 2018-19, using a technique that Google had banned developers from using without user consent, according to a Wall Street Journal report. TikTok tracked Android phones’ MAC (media access control) addresses — unique hardware identifiers assigned to a network […]

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