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All about TIK-TOK and the guy who Reverse-Engineered it !!



WHAT IS TIK-TOK?

Tik-Tok is a social networking platform where users can upload 15 second videos. Users can add music clips and sounds to their videos, and even act out dialogues from popular movies and TV shows. Tik-Tok also offers editing tools like merge, cut, trim, duplicate.

Before TikTok there was musical.ly, another product from the same parent company, ByteDance ,Later they merged with Musical.ly's 100 million monthly active users were automatically moved to TikTok.


ALL ABOUT ByteDance.....




ByteDance is a Chinese multinational internet technology company  headquartered in Beijing owing products like Tik-Tok, BUZZ video , VIGO video and Helo. Moreover, ByteDance is currently valued at more than $75 billion and is recognized as an AI tech leader and has been accused of clients data privacy issues many a times .

Also,TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is being sued after allegedly violating child privacy laws and collecting the data of young users through the video app, which was formerly called Musical.ly.


The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, forbids social media companies from collecting the data of children without explicit parental consent. Failing to obtain that consent would be in violation of the law and open the company up to potential lawsuits from regulators like the Federal Trade Commission.


What is REVERSE-ENGINEERING?






Reverse engineering, also called back engineering, is the process by which a man-made object is deconstructed to reveal its designs, architecture, or to extract knowledge from the object; similar to scientific research, the only difference being that scientific research is about a natural phenomenon.


THE GUY WHO REVERSE-ENGINEERED TIK-TOK!!

As now we got the idea of what reverse engineering is following are the words said by the guy who did it with tik-tok...
(Note that copyrights of these images belong to concerned source!!)

  






   
AT last all we wanna say its all upon you what you want to do with your privacy concerns!!!


Till then stay safe and healthy and share it to share the information if you think it is of worth it!!

Stay tuned with TechyPLADS a lot more to come!! SEE YAA folks!!

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