The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused TikTok of secretly collecting American users’ views on abortion, gun control, and religion.
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused TikTok of secretly collecting American users’ views on abortion, gun control, and religion.
In documents filed to the federal appeals court in Washington, the DOJ argued that measures that TikTok previously offered to address the government’s security concerns were insufficient. Federal officials claimed that TikTok employees used Lark to send sensitive data about U.S. users in bulk, information that has wound up being stored on Chinese servers and accessible to ByteDance employees in China.
The Justice Department argues that this is not a theoretical point of concern but an opportunity for TikTok to covertly manipulate the algorithm on TikTok, an app where a user is presented with a series of videos based upon a complex algorithm that is supposed to be tailored to a person’s interest.
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