It knows when you've been online shopping, the last time you worked out and whether you’ve been lurking on your ex’s profile.
It knows when you've been online shopping, the last time you worked out and whether you’ve been lurking on your ex’s profile.
"This is a hacker's dream," said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees. It also keeps tabs on what you’re doing on your device, like whether the app is in the foreground or if your mouse is moving, messages you send and receive and details on purchases you make, including credit card information.
"It looks to me like it is a grab bag or a drift-net approach," said Brett Caraway, a professor of media economics at the University of Toronto. Screen resolution, keystroke patterns, battery levels, audio settings and “your approximate location, including location information based on your SIM card and/or IP address” are also scooped up by TikTok.
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