Study Finds TikTok Tracking Pixels Present in State-Government Sites
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What's scarier: the Luddite ineptitude of big government or the ubiquity of big tech?
As state and local governments move to ban TikTok from employee devices, a team of internet researchers at Feroot Security have discovered an alarming, if hilarious, self-own: TikTok's web-activity tracking pixels are present in as many as 30 state government websites, effectively making them inadvertent agents in the Chinese company's data collection practices.
Source Fool.com