TikTok’s new Local Feed will show you nearby shopping, dining, events, news, and more.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/tiktok-launches-an-opt-in-local-feed-in-the-u-s-leveraging-users-precise-location/
TikTok’s new Local Feed will show you nearby shopping, dining, events, news, and more.
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/tiktok-launches-an-opt-in-local-feed-in-the-u-s-leveraging-users-precise-location/
It will use GPS.
https://usdsjv.tiktok.com/Introducing-the-Local-Feed
Yeah. This functionally worked before without gps. It leaves very little other reasons for them to suddenly need gps, now. This implicates there’s little motive to use the gps data for a local feed but the true motive is something else. The writing on the wall is that this is going to be sold to US immigration “enforcement” agencies. Shameful and disgraceful.