TikTok Strongly Denies Report That Its Chinese Parent Planned to Use App to Track Location of Individual U.S. Citizens
pushed back on a report that ByteDance, its Chinese parent, planned to use the app to track the physical locations of at least two U.S. citizens.that ByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk Control department, which investigates possible misconduct by employees, in at least two cases planned to “collect TikTok data about the location of a U.S. citizen who had never had an employment relationship with the company.
According to TikTok, Forbes did not include the portion of its statement that “disproved the feasibility of its core allegation: TikTok does not collect precise GPS location information from U.S. users, meaning TikTok could not monitor U.S. users in the way the article suggested.” TikTok does record IP addresses of users, but IP addresses cannot be used to reliably pinpoint a device’s location.
“Forbes’ reporting about TikTok continues to lack both rigor and journalistic integrity,” TikTok said in the statement. Asked for a response, Forbes spokesperson Bill Hankes said, “We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting.” The Forbes article was written by Emily Baker-White, who disclosed in the piece that she previously held “policy positions at Facebook and Spotify.”
TikTok, which boasts well over 1 billion users for its short-form video entertainment app, has been a political football since its inception because it is owned and controlled by Chinese internet giant ByteDance.Citing national security concerns, Donald Trump, in the final months of his term as U.S. president, issued an
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