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Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary TikTok's new privacy policy under US ownership introduces three major changes: precise GPS location tracking (previously not collected from US users), explicit tracking of AI interactions including prompts and generated outputs, and expanded ad network capabilities that use collected data to serve targeted ads across the web. Users were prompted to accept these changes before continuing to use the app. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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