Business Maverick: TikTok’s US data admission stokes fresh concerns

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The popular video-sharing service has admitted that some of its employees have access to data on users, which has raised concern about whether TikTok was sharing that data with the Chinese government.

TikTok’s admission that some China-based workers have access to data on US users provided fresh ammunition to a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission who is trying to get the video-sharing service dropped from major app stores.

TikTok has been questioned by US officials over whether private data on Americans may have been handed over to the authoritarian regime in China. The app, owned by ByteDance Ltd., said in a letterthat certain China-based employees can access information from US users, but denied information goes to the Chinese Communist Party.

 

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