TikTok: The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back

Liftoff by Bottle Rocket

This week on Liftoff by Bottle Rocket, Tony and Peter dig into some heavy themes around TikTok, Data, Privacy, and your Data as a Currency.
How much are you willing to trade for your privacy? How much is your data worth to you
TikTok may be a video sharing platform, a social media app, or a way to make fun videos… But actually it’s a rally cry.
Perhaps we need to have a better understanding of the value that our activities across the global digital ecosystem bring to entities.
Is thumbing through 60 second videos worth forfeiting your privacy and data?

Episode References:
Amazon told employees to delete TikTok from phones, citing security risks, then changed its mind

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/10/amazon-tells-employees-to-delete-tiktok-from-phones-citing-security-risks.html

Redditor who reverse-engineered the TikTok app claims it's a huge data collection scheme

https://www.inputmag.com/tech/redditor-reverse-engineers-tiktok-app-claims-massive-data-collection-scheme

Daily Crunch: TikTok’s CEO resigns

https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/27/daily-crunch-tiktoks-ceo-resigns/

TikTok To Sue Trump Administration Over Ban

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/08/900394707/tiktok-to-sue-trump-administration-over-ban-as-soon-as-tuesday

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