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Tik Tok Faces Another Ban in The Us Over Privacy Concern


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TikTok’s future in the US is looking a lot less certain, after an investigation involving its parent company ByteDance revealed that it had been spying on several American journalists whom it believed had been in contact with the staff, and gained access to commercially sensitive information.


“Over the summer, four employees on the ByteDance internal audit team looked into the sharing of internal information to journalists. Two members of staff in the US and two in China gained access to the IP addresses and other personal data of Financial Times journalist Cristina Criddle, to work out if she was in the proximity of any ByteDance employees, the company said.

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