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TikTok Sending Personal US Data to China, Government Warns
Data Scraped for Edgy Themes The filing states that internal search tools – developed and run by ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok – allow engineers at the company to “scrape” this data. This means engineers could search to gather specific information for political uses like “…bulk user information based on the user’s content or …
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US government says TikTok poses threat to national security – DW – 07/27/2024
The US Justice Department defended a law that aims to either ban TikTok or force it to divest its assets in the US after the social media company filed a lawsuit against the legislation. Under the law, the social media platform will have to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the US by …