Recently, TikTok made a change to its U.S. privacy policy, allowing the company to "automatically" collect new types of biometric data, including what it describes as "faceprints" and "voiceprints." TikTok's unclear intent, the permanence of the biometric data and potential future uses for it have caused concern among experts who say users' security and privacy could be at risk. On June 2, TikTok updated the "Information we collect automatically" portion of its privacy policy to include a new section called "Image and Audio Information," giving itself permission to gather certain physical and behavioral characteristics from its users' content. The increasingly popular video sharing app may now collect biometric information such as "faceprints and voiceprints," but the update doesn't define these terms or what the company plans to do with the data. "Generally speaking, these policy changes are very concerning," Douglas Cuthbertson, a partner in Lieff Cabraser's Privacy & Cybersecurity practice group, tells TIME.

Tech start-up Areto Labs noticed online abuse was stopping women from going into politics – so it did something about it. "Imagine you have a job interview and every day, for a month, you have to walk down a dark alley, knowing the worst people in the world are in that alley and they will yell and scream at you," proposes Aucklander Jacqueline Comer, a creative technologist. "If you knew that, you wouldn't apply for the job. And, unfortunately, that's what women in politics have to put up with." Most people in the public eye cop some online criticism, but women get some of the most violent.

The world has more data than ever before. In fact, it's estimated that by 2020, we'll produce 44 zettabytes every day. One gigabyte can hold the contents of enough books to cover a 30-foot-long shelf. That's a lot of data -- too much for most companies to process. And yet front-line employees are still often left operating with data that's "too little, too late."