TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly confirmed employees in US and China accessed the user data of some US citizens, including 2 journalists
from Financial Times, according to journalists from both publications. Other US citizens connected to the two reporters were also targeted, according to the Times.
ByteDance reportedly said it had restricted its audit and risk teams, now removing access to US data from that department moving forward. "The public trust that we have spent huge efforts building is going to be significantly undermined by the misconduct of a few individuals," ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo reportedly wrote to employees in an email. The revelation comes as TikTok faces
from lawmakers worried it could be used as a tool by the Chinese government to spy on or influence US citizens. that would ban"all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of, China, Russia, and several other foreign countries of concern."TikTok from all government devices. In a statement to Insider, TikTok called the bill"a proposal which does nothing to advance U.S. national security interests.
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