There has to be something shady about this. It has come to light that TikTok routes the personal data of job applicants through servers in China and only discloses this to candidates in certain countries Business Insider has discovered:
US job candidates, notably, are not told their data will be routed through China. Some of the personal information TikTok says it collects about applicants is potentially highly sensitive, with the firm’s own policies stating that it collects medical data; sex and race data; marital status; geolocation data, among many other categories. The revelation is an embarrassment for TikTok, which has spent much of 2020 maintaining that it is separate to its Chinese owner ByteDance, and fending off unproven insinuations by President Trump that it funnels user data to China. After being approached by Business Insider, TikTok said it would no longer store job applicant data in China.
Well, this would be a major disincentive for anyone to apply for a job at TikTok. And the fact that after they were caught doing this they said that they would stop this practice doesn’t change my view on that. Though in a way I am not surprised by this seeing as they are a Chinese company. This is yet another reason why TikTok is suspect at best.
So…. Am I The Only Person Who Finds That It’s Weird That Google Had An Extension To Exclude You From Their Ad Tracking?
Posted in Commentary with tags Google on December 16, 2020 by itnerdI tripped over an browser add-on that appears to be from Google that has this function according to them:
To provide website visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, we’ve developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for websites using the supported version of Google Analytics JavaScript (analytics.js, gtag.js).
If you want to opt out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox and Opera. In order to function, the opt-out add-on must be able to load and execute properly on your browser. For Internet Explorer, third-party cookies must be enabled. Learn more about the opt out and how to properly install the browser add-on here.
So, if I am not in favor of Google tracking my every activity, I need to install this add-on that I am somehow supposed to trust. That really doesn’t make sense to me as trusting Google to protect my privacy sounds like an oxymoron to me. And does the existence of this add-on mean that options such as Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin aren’t as effective? That isn’t clear. But the existence of this add-on from Google creates more questions than answers.
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