ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of popular video app TikTok, said some employees improperly accessed TikTok user data of two journalists and were no longer employed by the company, an email seen by Reuters shows.
A person briefed on the matter said four ByteDance employees who were involved in the incident were fired, including two in China and two in the United States. Company officials said they were taking additional steps to protect user data.
BuzzFeed News spokesperson Lizzie Grams said the company was deeply disturbed by the report, saying it showed “a blatant disregard for the privacy and rights of journalists as well as TikTok users.” TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew said in a separate email to employees seen by Reuters that such “misconduct is not at all representative of what I know our company’s principles to be.”He said the company “will continue to enhance these access protocols, which have already been significantly improved and hardened since this initiative took place.”Chew said that over the past 15 months the company had been working to build TikTok U.S. Data Security to ensure protected TikTok U.S.
ByteDance also said it was restructuring the Internal Audit and Risk Control department, and the global investigations function would be split out and restructured.
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