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TikTok updated its privacy policy quietly to collect biometric data from users.

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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 w...

TikTok has mentioned in an updated privacy policy section that it can collect data, including faceprints and voiceprints of users of the app in the US.

The Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok, wildly popular with American teenagers, has updated its privacy policy to add a section stating that the app will collect biometric information including "faceprints and voiceprints" from users.