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> You can agree with them or disagree with them but everyone should at least understand them accurately.

> "[...] it can read your text messages, it can track your keystrokes. It has access to your phone records."

Is that quote accurate though? For accessing text messages, you need to give them an OS permission. For tracking keystrokes, they need to install a keyboard app and you need to select it and use it in the app whose keystrokes they're interested in. For phone records, you again need to grant a separate permission.

I don't use Tiktok but the current gatekeepers of this world don't usually allow unnecessary permissions




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