TikTok updated its U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday, adding that the app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under U.S. laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your user content." The changes arrived within the ‘Image and Audio Information’ section of the company’s policy. Biometrics are body measurements related to human characteristics used for identification, such as fingerprints, face recognition, or voice recognition. TikTok did not elaborate on what it was working on that could require biometric data, but told Techcrunch that it would ask for consent if and when such data collection began where required by law. TikTok updated its U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday, adding that the app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under U.S. laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your user content."
Tue, May 18th 2021 3:34pm
Freddy Martinez
Time
Magazine released its inaugural list of the 100 Most Influential
Companies, featuring an array of large and small corporations that
“are helping to chart an
essential
path forward.”
Disturbingly, among its choices of “disruptors” is
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition start-up known for
illicitly scraping Americans’ images and demographic
information from social media and selling the data to law
enforcement. By celebrating a company that engages in illegal mass
surveillance, Time is complicit in the degradation of our privacy and
our civil liberties.
Even cursory
scrutiny by Time would have uncovered Clearview AI’s