TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
Forbes ^Posted on 10/20/2022, 6:35:03 PM by BenLurkin
ByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk Control department
The team primarily conducts investigations into potential misconduct by current and former ByteDance employees. But in at least two cases, the Internal Audit team also planned to collect TikTok data about the location of a U.S. citizen who had never had an employment relationship with the company...the plan was for a Beijing-based ByteDance team to obtain location data from U.S. users’ devices.
TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said that TikTok collects approximate location information based on users’ IP addresses to “among other things...detect and prevent fraud and inauthentic behavior."
As defined by who exactly?
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Okay, cross TikTok off the list of places I visit. Somebody wants to come to me asking about "authentic thoughts" will be well advised to have a lot of friends along with packed lunches and wearing Kevlar.
...silly bags of [BLEEP]
Saw a meme the other day: "Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason."
I may just adopt that for my tagline.
So it is said so it shall be done.