TikTok acknowledged collecting the precise location information of U.S. users despite previously downplaying concerns about how it tracked people’s physical location.
CEO Shou Zi Chew told lawmakers that his China-founded app gathered location information on Americans a few years ago and older versions of the app may still monitor people’s location.
The report said the ByteDance team planned to gather locational information for surveillance purposes rather than for such uses as targeted advertisements. Mr. Chew’s answer to Ms. Dingell said TikTok has collected the precise GPS location information on people in the U.S. and may continue to do so for people who have an outdated version of the app on their devices.
China’s policies of civil-military fusion force businesses to work with the communist government, making any location information gathered by companies subject to Chinese law and thus vulnerable to the communist country’s officials.
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