The privacy policy also notes that CapCut maintains technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, theft, disclosure, modification, or loss, providing a level of security appropriate to the processing risk.
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: This includes your account details (email, phone number, date of birth), and any user content you upload, such as photos, videos, and audio recordings.
This serves as a reminder that even if you trust an app's official data handling practices, malicious actors may try to exploit the app's popularity to trick you into revealing sensitive information.
ByteDance justifies this extensive data collection through several operational needs:
CapCut utilizes the collected data to maintain, improve, and personalize its services. The main uses include: