Twitter and TikTok’s data privacy controversies show the dangers of third-party apps

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The month of August was devastating for consumer and enterprise confidence in big tech and social media giants. Researchers discovered that TikTok uses keystroke tracking [subscription required] to track every character a user types in its in-app browser. Though the company claimed it uses this for troubleshooting. Separately, a whistleblower, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, has alleged that the organization misled its own board, as well as government regulators, about security vulnerabilities.

The supposed controversial data handling practices of TikTok and Twitter shed light on how consumers and enterprises cannot afford to implicitly trust social media companies to collect data responsibly and implement adequate security controls to protect it.
 

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