A recent investigation revealed that TikTok is the social network that shares its users’ data with more third-party platforms, above the industry average, as well as applications such as Telegram, Twitter and YouTube.
The report, made by URL Genius, reveals that a total of 200 mobile applications were analyzed in order to detect what data the platforms share with third parties or with the developer’s own tools.
In such a way that up to 13 different types of compartments were found by applications, such as TikTok.
The platform was based on the Log App Activity feature, added in iOS 15.2 by Apple.
TikTok in the crosshairs.
Mobile applications, the study refers, contact an average of 15 domains, and about 80 percent are third-party domains. TikTok leads this behavior.
Among the categories that share the most usage data are magazine and news applications, with 28 and 23 contacts respectively, of which 26 and 21 were shared with third parties.
The research has also focused on social applications such as networks or messaging applications. To do this, he analyzed ten platforms, in which the average contact was six, 60 percent from third parties, and the remaining 40 percent, from internal domains.
In the specific case of TikTok, the study indicates that the information it collects can range from the number of publications with which you interact, the content you see, or the personal data registered in the social network.
Unlike TikTok; YouTube is the platform that collects the most information; however, 71 percent of that data is used internally, for example to improve its recommendation system.
Likewise, the investigation acknowledged that it does not know what TikTok does after the fact with the data collected. As if that were not enough, users do not have the possibility of deactivating the tracking in charge of collecting the information.