Lifehacker – Stop giving TikTok permission to steal your personal data…TikTok goes beyond what you might expect from an app in terms of “sharing” your account with others. The social media company wants to send your deets to not only you contacts, nor only your Facebook friends, but also people who know the people you know, as well as people who open or send links to you. That doesn’t fly with me, and it probably shouldn’t fly with you either. Let’s take a look at some settings you can change to stop this type of behavior, as well as to plug some other privacy and security holes in the app…”