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	by Reubend 1118 days ago
	That's completely different. TikTok employees specifically accessed her data to identify her sources. That type of behavior, which can reasonably be characterized as "spying", is not the same as what Google is doing.

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> TikTok employees specifically accessed her data to identify her sources.

There was a highly publicised case at Facebook some years ago with the same behaviour.

If you think that only TikTok does that, think again.

Source? If the FB case is highly publicised, you certainly have a link to it, or?

Not the person you responded to but a quick google returned this:

I do remember this case when it happened. It was pretty major news. It is not isolated either. Here is an example of google doing it.

Oh and here is another good one where the Executives were involved:

Seems like the other poster is right... this is par for the course