TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account - BBC News
Two days before Christmas, TikTok called London-based journalist Cristina Criddle to tell her two of its employees in China, and two in the US, had viewed user data from her personal account without her knowledge or consent."I was at my family home with my teenage sister, teenage cousins - and they all use TikTok all of the time. They were like, 'Whoa, should we be worried?'".
Cristina does not know for how long she was tracked, or how often, but she does know it happened last summer. She had about 170 followers and over three years or so had uploaded some 20 videos of Buffy, viewed, on average, a couple of hundred times.Like most social-media networks, TikTok collects quite a lot of information about its account holders, including:Western users' data is never accessed or stored inside China, it says. And the staff responsible for the data breach of Cristina and a handful of other Western journalists, last year, were fired for misconduct.
She says it may also have breached the EU's strict General Data Protection Regulation, which states users have to actively consent to how their data is used. There are large penalties for companies failing to comply.
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