Joe Tidy / BBC: TikTok won’t add E2EE to DMs because it would prevent police and safety teams from reading messages if needed, saying it wants to protect young users from harm — TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe.
It is not even funny anymore how they are constantly lying about protecting children when in reality this is all about total control and spying.