Posted on 06/20/2022 8:49:23 AM PDT by bitt
TikTok's parent company is required to share data with the Chinese government
The Chinese parent company of TikTok had access to American users' data for months even while U.S. employees did not have access themselves, according to leaked audio.
The audio, obtained by BuzzFeed News, covers more than 80 internal meetings at TikTok between the months of September 2021 and January 2022. It showed that U.S. employees were not permitted to access user data and instead relied on Chinese employees to do so, according to BuzzFeed.
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is required under Chinese law to share its data with the Chinese Communist Party whenever requested.
"As we've publicly stated, we've brought in world class internal and external security experts to help us strengthen our data security efforts. This is standard industry practice given the complexity of data security challenges," TikTok said in a statement to Business Insider on Friday.
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Why?
What’s the problem here?
Are videos of teenagers dancing and making fools of themselves supposed to be secret?
Anyone can look at them, albeit one may end up brain dead after seeing them.
Which is why Pres Trump banned it in the US.
THEN... Bidet UNbanned it.
Go figure.
China spying of US folks ... color me surprise
China has been doing much worse w FB for 20 years.
The USA seems to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of China, Inc. /change my mind
Trump was right. TikTok is evil
Many teens get their fentanyl through TikTok
Last year, 3 out of 4 teens dies of overdoses.
Could be helpful profiling information. Teenagers eventually become adults in positions of authority.
Social credit system ping.
Why would anyone sign-up for this garbage?
I frequent FR and a couple firearm forums, but that’s all. I stay away from all the “social traps” out there; always have and always will.
True, but teenagers usually make fools of themselves, including Chinese teenagers. Nothing new or secret about that.
I think this article is making a fuss over nothing.
My laptop is set to display a notice when any program uses the camera. It got the notice the last time I used Google to log into a program.
Trump banned it.
First thing Biden did was stop the ban.
India banned it.
Only those with their heads up their butts don’t know about tik tok 🤪
So did we, until the steal.
How dare they! That’s the FBI’s job!!!
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