Joe Rogan reveals his concern with TikTok\u2019s terms and services YOUTUBE: POWERFULJREJoe Rogan was left in disbelief after reading TikTok\u2019s terms and services, saying parts of their privacy policy are \u201ccrazy.\u201d On a recent episode of his podcast, the \u2018Joe Rogan Experience,\u2019 Rogan claimed TikTok could pose a threat to the data privacy of its users. He told his guest Theo Von: \u201cOh my God! I read TikTok\u2019s terms and services. I went down a TikTok rabbit hole yesterday.\u201d When Von asked if they were good or bad, Rogan responded \u201cBad!\u201d \u201cI stayed home, smoked a little weed, and started reading up on TikTok. Oh my God! I\u2019m gonna read you this, \u2019cause this is so crazy,\u201d he said, before reading articles from the social media app\u2019s privacy policy. \u201cListen to this, this is from TikTok\u2019s privacy policy,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt said, \u2018We collect certain information about the device you use to access the platform, such as your IP address, user region.\u2019 This is really crazy.\u201d Joe Rogan reveals concern about TikTok policies Rogan appeared to be worried about the social media app\u2019s ability to monitor \u201ckeystroke patterns\u201d and \u201caudio settings.\u201d He said agreeing to the terms gives TikTok the ability to see what its users type, and to listen to them through their devices\u2019 mics. When his guest, Von, asked Rogan what happens once the social media app collects its users\u2019 data, he responded: \u201cIt ends with China having all your data.\u201d The UFC color commentator firmly believes that the Chinese social media platform poses a threat to users\u2019 data privacy and safety. During the podcast discussion, Von asked Rogan if he thinks TikTok was created for the sole purpose of mining data, to which Rogan responded that he \u201c100 percent\u201d believes that to be the case. The podcaster said: \u201cI think they saw that people are addicted to social media and they came up with the most addictive version of social media, which is TikTok. It\u2019s the most addictive by far. It\u2019s the best for sucking people in.\u201d This analysis is in line with several lawmakers in the United States, with the FCC Commissioner recently calling for it to be banned on Apple and Android devices. This followed a Buzzfeed report which stated the app \u201ccollects vast troves of sensitive data about U.S. users,\u201d which can be accessed by Chinese officials. TikTok has since responded to the criticism regarding its privacy policy, stating changes are in the pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan reveals his concern with TikTok\u2019s terms and services YOUTUBE: POWERFULJREJoe Rogan was left in disbelief after reading TikTok\u2019s terms and services, saying parts of their privacy policy are \u201ccrazy.\u201d On a recent episode of his podcast, the \u2018Joe Rogan Experience,\u2019 Rogan claimed TikTok could pose a threat to the data privacy of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}