My first article about TikTok is online: "TikTok: Logs, Logs , Logs" medium.com/@fs0c131y/tikt…
In this article, I tried to answer to the question: "What logs does TikTok regularly send?" medium.com/@fs0c131y/tikt… 
I decrypted the content of the requests and tested all the use cases to get all the possible logs sent by TikTok medium.com/@fs0c131y/tikt…
Does TikTok poses a risk to US national security? No idea but what I can say is TikTok doesn't have a suspicious behavior when it comes to the logs it uploads. medium.com/@fs0c131y/tikt…
It sends 3 type of info:
- Info about the device: device_id, device_type, device_brand, os_api, os_version, …
- Info about the app: app_type, app_language, version_code, version_name, build_number, …
- Info about the user: current_region, locale, region
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- Info about the device: device_id, device_type, device_brand, os_api, os_version, …
- Info about the app: app_type, app_language, version_code, version_name, build_number, …
- Info about the user: current_region, locale, region
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Yes, this is already too much. But it's not specific to TikTok and all your favorite apps (Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat, ...) are doing the same thing medium.com/@fs0c131y/tikt…
Stay updated, TikTok is a big app, I will continue to write about it. If you have questions, feedbacks, ideas, my DMs are open! Love 😘 medium.com/@fs0c131y/tikt…
PS: Some people commented: "but the servers are in China 🤪". Well, it's not that simple. TikTok is using @Akamai, a CDN provider, for log16-normal-c-useast1a.tiktokv.com. So if you are in the US, it will resolves to an US IP, in France, a French IP, etc.
