Chinese-owned TikTok can now collect your kids' faceprints and voiceprints

Chinese-owned TikTok made a quiet update to its privacy policy in the United States this week. The massively popular social video app gave itself permission to collect biometric data of U.S. users, which includes faceprints and voiceprints.

"We may collect information about the images and audio that are a part of your User Content, such as identifying the objects and scenery that appear, the existence and location within an image of face and body features and attributes, the nature of the audio, and the text of the words spoken in your User Content," the new privacy policy that was introduced on Wednesday stated.

"We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your User Content," TikTok said. "Where required by law, we will seek any required permissions from you prior to any such collection."

TechCrunch reported, "Only a handful of U.S. states have biometric privacy laws, including Illinois, Washington, California, Texas and New York. If TikTok only requested consent, 'where required by law,' it could mean users in other states would not have to be informed about the data collection."

TikTok claimed they may need to "collect this information to enable special video effects, for content moderation, for demographic classification, for content and ad recommendations, and for other non-personally-identifying operations."

"In response to various questions about what data the company is now collecting on users, how it defines 'faceprints and voiceprints,' what data it might collect in the future, and what it might do with that information," a TikTok spokesperson told The Verge on Thursday, "As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency, we recently updated our Privacy Policy to provide more clarity on the information we may collect."

The current expansion of TikTok's privacy policy is especially concerning since TikTok lost a class-action lawsuit filed in the United States for collecting and sharing personal and biometric information of users without their consent. The suit alleged that the app collected "highly sensitive personal data" to track users and target ads to them. TikTok rejected the allegations but said it didn't want to spend time litigating the issue. TikTok settled the class-action lawsuit by paying out a whopping $92 million to the users.

"As part of the settlement, TikTok has agreed to avoid several behaviors that could compromise user privacy unless it specifically discloses those behaviors in its privacy policy," according to The Verge. "Those behaviors include storing biometric information, collecting GPS or clipboard data, and sending or storing US users' data outside the country."

In December 2019, TikTok Inc. and parent company ByteDance Technology Co. agreed to a $1.1 million lawsuit over alleged children's privacy allegations. The lawsuit alleged that the kid-friendly app collected children's information without their parents' consent.

"The companies compiled and disclosed personal information and viewing data, including lip-syncing videos, of children who used their Musical.ly app, and sold it to third-party advertisers," according to Bloomberg.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/tiktok-privacy-biometrics-faceprints-china

New Mexico governor dismisses protesters as ‘QAnon lizard people’

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham dismissed the protesters who showed up at her reelection campaign announcement as “QAnon lizard people.”

“I know it’s going to be loud, and I just have to say I’m sorry that we picked the same location that the QAnon lizard people meeting was at,” the Democrat said, laughing, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

“Raucous” protesters gathered outside the Albuquerque Museum to disrupt her press conference, the paper reported.

Signs carried at the protest read: “Governor, we are not your subjects,” “Open all Businesses now,” and “Stop obeying.”

“She’s being praised by [President] Biden for being one of the best people for locking down this country, and she’s being applauded for that, but we actually see that as tyranny because she actually forced people to not be able to work,” said John Ramacciotti, a gun-carrying protester and intensive-care nurse, said, according to the paper. “I feel like she really has hurt our people, our kids.”

Lujan Grisham’s campaign spokeswoman, Kendall Witmer, said the governor “certainly made the shortest speech she’s ever going to” — having cut it short on account of the protest.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/05/new-mexico-gov-dismisses-protesters-as-qanon-lizard-people/

Cyber Polygon: Will The Next Globalist War Game Lead To Another Convenient Catastrophe?

Back in April I published an article titled ‘Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails’. In it I noted an odd trend which many of us in the liberty media have become aware of over the years – Almost every major man-made catastrophe in the US and in many other parts of the world in the past couple decades has been preceded by a government or globalist “exercise”. These exercises and war games tend to mimic the exact disaster that would eventually strike the public only days or weeks later. Sometimes the mock disaster exercises and the real events happen at the same time.

The covid pandemic was no exception. It’s quite miraculous…

I have specifically outlined the bizarre “coincidence” of the World Economic Forum’s Event 201 exercise, a war game co-funded by Bill Gates and Johns Hopkins and launched in October of 2019. Event 201 simulated a global novel zoonotic coronavirus pandemic (supposedly spread from bats to people) that “required” a global lockdown response. Only two months later the real thing actually happened. Almost every aspect of the Covid event has played out exactly as was practiced during the WEF war game.

One very disturbing element of the covid response has been the coordinated suppression campaign by Big Tech platforms from YouTube to Facebook and Twitter. This campaign has sought to undermine or destroy any facts, data and opinions which run contrary to the government narrative on covid, even if the official narrative on covid ends up being completely wrong. The strategy was described in detail during Event 201 and it was executed with extreme efficiency among supposedly disconnected companies and governments around the world. It’s almost as if they KNEW a coronavirus pandemic was about to happen, and they were already staged to control the public reaction well in advance.

And let’s be clear because I do not want to seem ambiguous; the World Economic Forum and their globalist partners have been the prime beneficiaries during the pandemic. As WEF head Klaus Schwab has excitedly noted over and over again, the pandemic is a perfect “opportunity” for globalists to fast track what they call the “Great Reset” agenda – A plan to completely dismantle the current political and economic framework of the world and rebuild it into a highly centralized socialist civilization in which they are in complete control and personal freedom is a faded memory.

This is why recent revelations of Covid’s probable lab origins are not at all surprising. Just mentioning this idea a year ago in social media was enough to get you banned. And, if you want to know where to find the truth, always look first to the subjects you are not allowed to discuss. As I stated in my article ‘How Viral Pandemic Benefits The Globalist Agenda’, published in January of 2020 at the very beginning of the outbreak:

https://alt-market.us/cyberpolygon-will-the-next-globalist-war-game-lead-to-another-convenient-catastrophe/