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China Accessed Data of TikTok’s US Users – BuzzFeed

Leaked recordings revealed a person from TikTok’s Trust and Safety department as saying, “Everything is seen in China,’’ Buzzfeed reported.


Tik Tok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration
The government also filed a classified document with the court detailing additional security concerns about ByteDance’s ownership of TikTok, as well as broader declarations from the FBI, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and DOJ’s National Security Division. File image: Reuters.

 

China-based employees of TikTok parent ByteDance had access to the private data of TikTok’s US users, according to leaked audio recordings of 80 internal meetings, BuzzFeed  reported.

While video platform TikTok has insisted that access to its user data is controlled by a security team in the US, the recordings revealed a person from TikTok’s Trust and Safety department as saying, “Everything is seen in China,’’ BuzzFeed reported.  The recordings revealed fourteen statements from nine TikTok employees that said China-based engineers had accessed the data of US users, at least between last September and January this year, BuzzFeed reported. Full story: Buzzfeed

 

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Kevin Hamlin

Kevin Hamlin is a financial journalist with extensive experience covering Asia. Before joining Asia Financial, Kevin worked for Bloomberg News, spending 12 years as Senior China Economy Reporter in Beijing. Prior to that, he was Asia Bureau Chief of Institutional Investor for ten years.