TikTok it is the most popular social network in recent years, able to put all those who wish to bring to the fore creative video content on the web. For some time, however, the public had been asking a very important question: does the social network spy on its users? Indeed, there was no evidence to justify the suspicion, but for a few days everything has been reversed and it seems that China spies on users who use the social network. Especially US users.
To make this discovery known are the United States of America after an investigation by BuzzFeed in which it reveals that the data is being sent to the Chinese office, despite this being denied by the same social network. This is because it is not the first time that this news is spoken of and the giant of flash videos had shown itself very interested in resolving this diatribe. Apparently without results, as espionage continues to exist. And all of this has been proven on as many as 80 recordings of meetings that took place in the same Chinese location.
Will TikTok take serious action or will it give up?
The same engineers as ByteDance have shown much perplexity in these meetings, showing 14 occasions in which the transmissions of US user data have been confirmed. These events were recorded, however, from September 2021 to January 2022 and not for every single meeting held. The points of greatest interest were the technical and administrative ones in which employees spoke more freely than on other occasions. An example is precisely that of an engineer who, feeling “safe”, spoke of a certain “Master Admin” able to access any profile and data on the web.
Another confirmation also comes from the department Trust and Safety of the social network, able to state that there are no blocks of any kind towards China. During the investigation she was questioned TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan, and the same stated how the social is working to remove any doubts about the security, especially that of US user data. Also, since May, it has been created a new internal department called US Data Security (Usds) with the best security experts, in order to increase the level of data protection.
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