TikTok’s Chinese Parent Company Has Unlimited Access to American Data

Newsbusters.org ^ | 6/26/2021 | Autumn Johnson

[rktman]

Former TikTok employees have disclosed that the popular social media platform is largely controlled by its Chinese parent company.

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, supplies the Chinese government with endless American user data since Chinese law requires its organizations to “support, assist, and cooperate with the state intelligence work.”

TikTok’s privacy policy allows the platform to share user data with ByteDance.

“We may share all of the information we collect with a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of our corporate group,” the policy reads.

The user data the platform collects is unlimited.

“They’ve collected ten of millions of pieces of data on Americans,” said Lewis. “This is big data. In the U.S. they use it for advertising ... in China, the state uses it for intelligence purposes,” Jim Lewis, senior vice president of the strategic technologies program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a foreign affairs think tank, told CNBC.

[rktman]

Thanks goodness. That was like an asian/pacific islander hate crime that Trump imposed. Or something. :-}

[Vinnie]

Didn’t Trump outlaw TikTok?

[rktman]

Pedo joe fixed that.