TikTok parent company fires staffers who obtained data of U.S. users: ‘Egregious misuse of their authority'

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TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance revealed that an internal probe found employees had inappropriately obtained the data of U.S. TikTok users.

'Fox & Friends' co-hosts discuss the increasing security concerns surrounding TikTok as at least 14 governors banned the app for state agencies.has now fired four employees who"inappropriately obtained" the data of some American users, including journalists.

"[TikTok] employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees," Forbes reported. "In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts. They were trying to determine if those individuals were within proximity of ByteDance employees, according to the company, which added that the efforts failed to find any leaks," Kang wrote.

 

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Who cares. Get Tick Tock off your devices fast as you can.

FOX simping for tiktok how low will you go

I'm shocked... SHOCKED that gambling is going on here at Bushwood..mmmf

Sure they did.

Oh please your responsible for their actions. Stop all the illegal action with your China IT people

At this point, anyone using Tik Tok is wilfully spying for China.

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