FTA:

“TikTok collects sensitive and potentially embarrassing information about you even if you've never used the app.”

They're silently collecting very personal information, without permission, from people that not users.

You can't object to Tiktok collecting information about your mental health because you're not told they're collecting it in the first place.

Where is the lie?

One side effect is that Capital One thinks that it has the wrong email address for me:

  "You haven’t opened an email from us lately, 
  so we’re checking in to make sure your contact
  information is up to date."

> For more science, technology, environment and health stories from the BBC, follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

If you worry about tracking you certainly shouldn’t be on Facebook or Instagram, one the OGs of pervasive tracking even if you’re not a user.

My degree is in Public Relations and I worked in political PR for a bit before moving to newspapers. The PR office worked so hard to word things in a way where news editors could lift our copy directly into print. It was a delicate balance to sell a point of view without sounding like a sales pitch.

Later, at the newspapers, I was shocked to learn how desperately editors would snag any text to fill the space between paid-for ads on a page. A minimal amount of actual journalism occurred above the fold. Past that we would publish absolutely anything in the English language without filtering.

This was all 20+ years ago. Now we've cut out the middle man, automatically publishing AI generated slop directly as if it were human-produced news. It's all very discouraging.

Bold claims like this need citations.

But this article is from the BBC so they would arguably be talking about the one that's available in Europe which is still controlled by China.

The “we” I was around was and is vehemently opposed to American companies doing this sort of thing.

One thing is for certain, if ad targeting is not being done in ways it shouldn't be, there isn't anything technically preventing it.