The company was said to use an exploit in Android OS to collect and track the MAC addresses of Android devices. Aug 12, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/tiktok-used-android-loophole-to-collect-mac-addresses-without-user-consent/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJUD54xr/
The Solution:
https://geekeasier.com/change-mac-address-in-android-devices-without-root/4792/
Media Access Control is a unique ID consisting of 12 digit hexadecimal numbers. It comes already hard-coded on your mobile system. This identifier helps to distinguish a specific device over the cluster of devices connected to a particular network. If you are surfing the web from your Android phone using a WiFi network, the network adapter of your WiFi devices must have a MAC address to set up the connection and transfer data over the network. MAC address looks something like this XX::XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, where each X is a hexadecimal character i.e. ranges from 0-9 or A-F. A possible MAC address could be, 1A:2B:3C:4D:5E:6F where the first 6 digits find your manufacturer and the last six digits find your network interface card.
There any many instances where someone has blocked your device from connecting to their router, what should you do in that case? Changing the MAC address of your device would definitely work in this case. If you are connected to a WiFi but you don’t want to leave any trace of your presence on the network i.e. you want to protect your privacy, in that situation also you can change the MAC address in Android Devices….
Click the link above to read the full instructions.

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