anyone who has a Chicom-owned app on their phone is foolish. (Temu, Tictoc, Wish, etc)
TikTok is not Chinese owned.
The truth is that whether you have an android or apple-based phone... they are all designed to track and spy on you and share your information with the government and corporations based all over the world. This starts from the moment you take it home with you and turn it on. If you think that you are safe from this type of surveillance because you are avoiding the apps from “(Temu, Tictok, Wish, etc) you are the one who is foolish.
Personal privacy is a thing of the past if you are using a cell phone, computer, or any other connected device. I don't know how a person exits from this type of surveillance state nonsense. Even if you were to get rid of every electronic communications device you own and move completely off the grid... somehow the eyes will still be on you. The primary question is whether you accept this aspect of modern living or if you let it drive you crazy.
Here is an interesting video from Liron Segev aka TheTechieGuy. He tracks the information coming out of a new Android phone from before he even registers it on a network and adds any apps... And the situation is not much if any different on an Apple phone...
Title: Why is your phone SECRETLY connecting to these sites to TRACK you?
https://youtu.be/sWY2pqUXdts?list=LL
In the video he added and activated various apps such as “(Temu, Tictok, Wish, etc)” along with all the other usual suspects.
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The worst offenders were of course Google who owns the operating system and then Amazon. I use services from both of these companies daily. I have never used apps from Temu, Tiktok, Wish, or been on their websites but who knows if your examples are much if any worse of a threat to your privacy and security than the companies and apps you are already using. I have been a tech nerd since before personal computers and personal cell phones even existed. I started out with Alfred Morgan's Boy Electrician, and other how to books and moved on to HeathKits, etc... I don't feel confident any more to advise people on which of the mainstream apps are safe. I don't think any of them really are. This is what our society has morphed into and allowed.