The probe into ByteDance stems from the company’s acknowledgment in December that employees had obtained data of U.S. TikTok users.
and admitted to the surveillance following an internal investigation.that the FBI and DOJ were looking at the Chinese company’s surveillance of her.
Baker-White said the app’s owner used her TikTok account to track her location in an effort to find her sources. After its internal investigation, ByteDance fired employee Chris Lepitak, who oversaw the team responsible for the surveillance, Forbes said. AFP via Getty ImagesForbesThe social media app has insisted, however, that the ban wouldn’t solve the concerns of the US government.
“If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn’t solve the problem: a change in ownership would not impose any new restrictions on data flows or access,” TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said.“Literally 100 million Americans are on TikTok an average of 90 minutes a day. That data is residing in China no matter what TikTok says, and the truth is TikTok can be used as a propaganda mechanism for the Communist Party of China,” he said.
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