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) for the China market in September 2016. TikTok and Douyin are the same but run on different servers to comply with Chinese censorship restrictions. The application allows users to create short music and lip-sync videos of 3 to 15 seconds - Source: Wikipedia

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TikTok’s webpage said it may gather GPS data if TikTok users enable “Location Services” but TikTok said the location services feature “may not be available in all regions, including the U.S. and South Korea.”

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