The BBC reports that TikTok published a new policy after investors closed a deal with TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to run the short-form video app’s business in the US. The updated policy adds that sensitive personal information, including precise location data, would be processed “in accordance with applicable law,” and notes that users can turn off location services in their device settings. TikTok did not immediately respond to the BBC’s request for comment. notes that even before the new venture, TikTok collected location information based on a user’s SIM card or IP address, or both, and that precise location sharing had not yet been enabled at the time referenced. The context includes a 2024 US law requiring the platform to be banned in the US by January 2025 if ByteDance did not sell its US operations to American investors.