New reports in the US have raised serious questions about whether the Chinese government has access to the personal data of US TikTok users. Yet Apple and Google, which run the two largest app stores, seem unconnected.
Leaked audio of Tiktok’s internal meeting obtained The company’s sworn testimony to Congress by BuzzFeed contradicts that US user data is managed by a “world-renowned US-based security team.” BuzzFeed reports that US employees could not access the data on their own and had to ask Chinese allies where the user information was going. According to Buzzfeed, China-based engineers had access to non-public US user data from at least September 2021 to January 2022.
opinion | On TikTok, It’s All Fun And Games Unless China Wants Your Information
New reports in the US have raised serious questions about whether the Chinese government has access to the personal data of US TikTok users. Yet Apple and Google, which run the two largest app stores, seem unconnected.
Leaked audio of Tiktok’s internal meeting obtained The company’s sworn testimony to Congress by BuzzFeed contradicts that US user data is managed by a “world-renowned US-based security team.” BuzzFeed reports that US employees could not access the data on their own and had to ask Chinese allies where the user information was going. According to Buzzfeed, China-based engineers had access to non-public US user data from at least September 2021 to January 2022.