{"id":54088,"date":"2022-07-01T19:33:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/is-the-joy-of-tiktok-worth-your-data-a-reporter-weighs-in"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:33:23","slug":"is-the-joy-of-tiktok-worth-your-data-a-reporter-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/is-the-joy-of-tiktok-worth-your-data-a-reporter-weighs-in","title":{"rendered":"Is the joy of Tiktok worth your data? A reporter weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the commissioner of the FCC called for Apple and Google to remove Tiktok from their online stores after raising privacy concerns. Plus, some outlets are reporting that people should delete apps that track their period cycles after the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, because some of the&nbsp;apps track user data, which has caused concerns among abortion rights activists. CBS tech reporter Dan Patterson joined The Show on KMOX to talk about how data from social media apps like Tiktok and period apps like Flo. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just women, but women in particular need to pay attention to this. Any type of health information &#8212; no matter who you are &#8212;&nbsp;that you put into an app, search results, or your search history on sites like Google and Bing, and other methods of communication,&#8221; Patterson said.&nbsp;&#8220;But the reason is that none of these applications are protected by traditional HIPAA privacy protections. And so this means that you could be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the commissioner of the FCC called for Tiktok to be taken off of Apple and Google&#8217;s online stores, people are wondering if they should keep using apps that might<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,1],"tags":[13,212,301,34,166,391],"class_list":["post-54088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-news","tag-cell-phones","tag-data-privacy","tag-internet","tag-technology","tag-tiktok","tag-whatsapp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}