Posted on 04/16/2024 8:40:31 AM PDT by bitt
A former senior employee at TikTok said he was ordered to send American user data to Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, contradicting TikTok’s public claims of operating independently from China, according to a Fortune report published Monday.
Evan Turner, a senior data scientist for TikTok from April to September in 2022, told Fortune that every two weeks TikTok had him email spreadsheets containing millions of American users’ data to ByteDance employees in Beijing, including the users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and demographics.
Turner said he "literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China" even though TikTok had launched Project Texas in March 2022, promising U.S. officials that it would stop sharing American user data with its Chinese parent company and keep the data in U.S.-based data centers. "There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this," Turner said.
The former senior data scientist said that while his supervisor was switched from a ByteDance executive in Beijing to an American manager in Seattle, a human resources representative told him he would in reality still report to the Beijing-based ByteDance executive. Turner said he never met with the American manager and continued to have weekly meetings with the ByteDance executive.
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By law in China, their companies are required to spy on people in other countries and report data back to the homeland.
FYI-—By law in China, Chinese companies established elsewhere, are required to spy on people and gather data, in every other country, and report the assembled data back to the Chinese homeland. (Tell It Right provided data)
Wonder what it would cost a company to buy the spun off Division of American t i k t o k?
Wow...what a surprise, not. They’re commies, isn’t that what they’re supposed to do? Just think how much info. flows out of the USA every year via their agents (college students, employees, etc.) who reside here...billions and billions of dollars worth, for the past few decades.....
Stay safe…. Only use Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg keeps Americans data safe.
If the US wasn’t the “Selfie Nation” TikTok would be long gone.
2. The US is just pissed China has a better mechanism for spying than the US does.
3. The Feds need control of all social media in order to control the narrative. As long as TikTok is Chinese owned and operated, they cannot control the narrative.
“As long as TikTok is Chinese owned and operated, they cannot control the narrative.”
As long as TikTok is Chinese owned and operated China controls the narrative.
Mr Kruschev indicated that we would sell to communists the rope to hang us with.
What a conspiracy theorist !!
WE (UnitedStates corporations) have built the ENTIRE edifice of CommunistChina
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