According to materials reviewed by Forbes, ByteDance tracked multiple Forbes journalists as part of this covert surveillance campaign, which was designed to unearth the source of leaks inside the company
“This new development reinforces serious concerns that the social media platform has permitted TikTok engineers and executives in the People’s Republic of China to repeatedly access private data of U.S. users despite repeated claims to lawmakers and users that this data was protected,” Senator Mark Warner told. “The DoJ has also been promising for over a year that they are looking into ways to protect U.S.
The team that oversaw the surveillance campaign was ByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk Control department, a Beijing-based unit primarily responsible for conducting investigations into potential misconduct by current and former ByteDance employees. In 2021, TikTok became the most visited website in the world, but the app’s ownership by Chinese tech giant ByteDance has raised serious concerns about the company’s access to the personal information of millions of U.S. citizens, as well as its capacity to manipulate and influence user content. The company is currently negotiating a national security contract with the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.
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