⚠️WARNING⚠️ TikTok see your contacts even if you have never gave it consent

I recently downloaded TikTok for the first time, I was curious to test if the algorithm was done so well, to TikTok's request that it wants to access my contacts I said NO.

BUT I immediately noticed a disturbing detail, the third/fourth video was of one of my contacts with the words under the username "from your contacts", I thought I had clicked wrong, I went to settings and to my amazement I was right, access to contacts was disabled. …

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