Reddit CEO, Steve Huffman has raised an alarm for the people to stay away from the TikTok app and also said that this app is parasitic spyware.
Huffman raised an objection on the fingerprint technology used by the ByteDance firm, the parent company of TikTok. He said that the app is monitoring the activities of the users and enables the company to know the categories of the content that the users are accessing.
ByteDance response to Steve Huffman’s comment
ByteDance, the TikTok designing firm, said that the statement is vague and fingerprint technology is provided so that the users can find out the suspicious activities done by the browser.
Does Steve Huffman’s statement have any significance?
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Matthias Eberl, the data protection expert has researched the fingerprinting technology and agrees with the statement of Huffman. Eberl denied the ByteDance supporting answer and said that the script is not necessary for the app as it can perform smoothly without the same.
What exactly happened?
Steve Huffman went to Social 2030 Venture Capital Conference and said that the app is a package of parasitic spyware and it is spying the activities of the users. He was being loud on Fingerprint technology used by ByteDance and said, such technology is a danger for the common people as well as Nation.
Well, ByteDance is not the only company in China who is facing the spying allegation, Huawei is also in the list and the Senate has already banned the purchase of any such equipment manufactured by Huawei. As per some reports, the company is gathering the intelligence information of other countries through some of its equipment and citing the same reason the Senate banned the purchase of Huawei items in the US.