ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of popular video app TikTok, said on Thursday that some employees this summer improperly accessed TikTok user data of two U.S. 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 and were aiming to identify potential connections between two journalists and company employees, said the email from ByteDance general counsel Erich Andersen. The disclosure, reported earlier by the New York Times, could add toin Washington from lawmakers and the Biden administration over security concerns about U.S. user data.
Congress is set to pass legislation this week to ban U.S. government employees from downloading or using TikTok on their government-owned devices. 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 U.S.
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