Users on Threads warned others to leave TikTok, with one saying: "I did not feel it was wise, nor safe for me to keep it."

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of "immigration status" data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is related to state privacy laws.

Ellison has made plenty of news outside of TikTok of late. He has been pursuing American media giant Warner Brothers Discovery, with a hostile bid against Netflix. And last year, he closed on a deal that puts the Ellison family in charge of another major media company, Paramount. (The BBC is a partner of Paramount’s CBS News.)

TikTok has finalized a deal to sell parts of its US business. Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX, and Michael Dell are part of the consortium of new investors.

Whether this is just a regular outage or a result of this week’s changes in management, reports tracked on Downdetector and Reddit confirm many people are having trouble loading TikTok right now. If the mobile app loads,

Details on the expanded access to location information was published in a new privacy policy for the popular social media app.