TikTok; Google; Your Data | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

The one important point completely left out is the fact that the US has no comprehensive privacy laws that would prohibit what Tik Tok, Google, and Facebook do all the time, sell personal data to third parties without their knowledge or expressed consent for each and every time it is sold to data brokers. (The privacy act of 1974 only applies to governmental organizations and HIPA only applies to medical/healthcare providers)

The irony. We're watching this on an app Google owns.

Even if we had no TikTok, privacy would still be a fairy tale. Everyone who has a cellphone, regardless of what apps they think they’ve safely installed, everyone who has a Smart TV, an AI assistant (Google Home, Alexa, etc), who uses the internet (despite tasting a VPN), who has a video doorbell, who uses credit cards, who drives a car, who uses public transportation (buses, planes, trains, Ubers, Lyfts), who goes anywhere in public, can all forget about having privacy. It does not exist and hasn’t for a long time. If no one has exposed what you thought was private, it honestly probably just wasn’t interesting enough to expose.

I never had TikTok and never will😂

How can we believe China is offering free expression and creativity in a country that doesn’t allow free expression and creativity?

In china tiktok is more focus on education and building your life.

A few weeks ago I had a verbal conversation with a relative about buying new mattresses. Never searched online for a mattress in my life. A few days later my google news feed was jam packed with mattress ads. I notice stuff like this all the time. Google records every single word every human being says and uses it to target advertisements. It's mass scale felonious wiretapping.

The government isn't concerned with our privacy but theirs. The government does the same thing to us. This is why Instagram and Facebook have different agreements with the EU cause the laws are more severe.

Very interesting that China's version of Tik Tok is about academics and other "creative" learning pieces of content, whereas in America it's about twerking & fighting and fully-grown adults engaging in prepubescent pranks.

This was a major wakeup for me, as the entire school district in Ohio I grew up in was a “Google-Sponsored School”. We were taught using non-google products was dumb, and were forced to use chromebooks and chromeOS all the way until graduation.

the way the executives downplay what is going on is terrifying..

Our own government does that to us already. If you are just now getting concerned after watching this video makes me concerned

They need to delete all the social media junk. Things were so different before myspace and Facebook

“Is Google a monopoly?” LOL, just Ask Jeeves.

Funny how they always point the finger when they know damn well they all are working together!

All of those innocent looking platforms are in fact a trap and what's scary is: 1) people have no idea. 2) still there are no privacy laws in US. I worked for tech and I am very aware of the horrific evil these companies do. I don't have a single social media account and would strongly advice you to do the same. You have no idea what these guys do.

LMAO, Tik-Tok is not that sophisticated. I used to have it and I got rid of it because I felt like it was trying to Lead Me in the way I didn't want to go. Tik-Tok is trash, just a waste of time. Go out and live your life don't watch other people live theirs

Fun facts: TikTok in China has more educational focus and 45 min. time limits for minors. The US version of TikTok is actually banned in China.

Small detail but I love that the dude's a Director with stickers on his laptop- lol

Thank you for your honesty.