TikTok insiders say social media company is tightly controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance

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Former TikTok employees say there is cause for concern when it comes to the popular social media app's Chinese parent company.

also possess vast troves of information they've collected on their users. The difference, according to experts on Sino-U.S. relations and Chinese espionage, is that American companies have many tools at their disposal to protect their users when the U.S. government seeks data, while Chinese companies have to comply with the Chinese government.

The Chinese government's track record when it comes to human rights and widespread surveillance is reason for concern. Americans who decide to use TikTok should do so with the understanding that they are likely handing their data over to a Chinese company subject to the Chinese government, said Bill Evanina, CEO of Evanina Group, which provides companies with consultation for risk-based decisions regarding complex geopolitics.

A first step would be for TikTok to be more transparent about what its data collection process is. For cybersecurity experts, specific details would go a long way toward gaining it credibility.

 

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Right, I totally didn't know ByteDance could decide what TikTok does. Thanks for the insight, TikTok insiders!

Really great for $BBIG

China CCP already controls many 🇺🇲 companies, why would anyone expects anything less with their own? Even the Nike CEO just came out.

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Trump was right,its CCP control

Got blocked by saying a few bad words about China

wasn’t trump aging this last year?

Duh

You don't say! Parent company keeping an eye on its subsidiary is bad?

Yet people will continue using it. Looks like the china virus damaged quite a bit of their brain.

No duh. Chinese origins means Chinese control.

We Indians knowing it before so banned 1 year back !

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Any company is independent from it's parent company?

That's what Mr. Trump used to say while these media made him a crazy person. Who didn't know this?

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