In this case, BO has done nothing more than regurgitate yet another reddit post:<p><a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/fmuko1m/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...</a>
TikTok is no different to any social media apps out there when it comes to tracking and telemetry. However, the protection mechanisms in their API is interesting if true.<p>Perhaps they got Arxan Technologies to do the heavy-lifting for them to audit and obfuscate their private API just like how Snapchat and Niantic (Pokemon Go) did.<p>This ultimately sounds like typical white-box cryptography again.