Anonymous ID: 1e89c9 Aug. 7, 2022, 2:52 p.m. No.17165448   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Leaked Audio: Americans' Private TikTok Data Accessed From China

 

Leaked audio from 80 internal TikTok meetings reveal that private data from Americans has been repeatedly accessed from China, according to a new report from BuzzFeed, which described the practice as "exactly the type of behavior that inspired former president Donald Trump to threaten to ban the app in the United States."

 

Trump notably issued an Executive Order which warned that TikTok's "data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information."

 

And then Biden, whose son Hunter dealt with CCP-linked individuals on a regular basis (even sharing office space), revoked the ban…

 

According to the report, TikTok employees said that Chinese engineers for parent company ByteDance could access nonpublic US user data from at least September 2021 through January, and that their ability to access the data was 'farther reaching than previously known.'

 

In September, one TikTok director said that a Chinese engineer was a "Master Admin" who "has access to everything."

 

Later that month, a member of TikTok's Trust and Safety department allegedly said that "everything is seen in China."

 

The risk, of course, includes espionage:

 

Lawmakers’ fear that the Chinese government will be able to get its hands on American data through ByteDance is rooted in the reality that Chinese companies are subject to the whims of the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party, which has been cracking down on its homegrown tech giants over the last year. The risk is that the government could force ByteDance to collect and turn over information as a form of “data espionage.”

 

There is, however, another concern: that the soft power of the Chinese government could impact how ByteDance executives direct their American counterparts to adjust the levers of TikTok’s powerful “For You” algorithm, which recommends videos to its more than 1 billion users. Sen. Ted Cruz, for instance, has called TikTok “a Trojan horse the Chinese Communist Party can use to influence what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think.” -BuzzFeed

 

When asked, a TikTok spokesperson, Maureen Shanahan, gave a vague answer.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leaked-audio-americans-private-tiktok-data-accessed-china