ByteDance Used TikTok to Spy on US Journalists: Report
A report has revealed that Chinese company ByteDance, which owns TikTok, used the company’s access to user data to illicitly track American journalists.
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A report has revealed that Chinese company ByteDance, which owns TikTok, used the company’s access to user data to illicitly track American journalists.
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of popular video app TikTok, said on Thursday that some employees this summer improperly accessed TikTok user data of two U.S.
ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information.
ByteDance says it has fired four employees who accessed the data of several TikTok users located in the US, including several journalists.
Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of Schaumburg shared with the Daily Herald his reasons for supporting a bipartisan House bill that would ban China's popular video-sharing app TikTok in the U.S.