ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of popular video app TikTok, said on Thursday that some employees improperly accessed TikTok user data of two journalists and were no longer employed by the company, an email seen by Reuters shows.
ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information earlier this year, and were aiming to identify potential connections between two journalists, a former BuzzFeed reporter and a Financial Times reporter, and company employees, the email from ByteDance general counsel Erich Andersen said.
Congress is set to pass legislation this week to ban U.S. government employees from downloading or using TikTok on their government-owned devices and more than a dozen governors have barred state employees from using TikTok on state-owned devices. Forbes reported Thursday ByteDance had tracked multiple Forbes journalists including some who formerly worked at BuzzFeed "as part of a covert surveillance campaign" aimed at discovering the source of leaks. Randall Lane, the chief content officer of Forbes, called it "a direct assault on the idea of a free press and its critical role in a functioning democracy."
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. user data stays in the United States.
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