Is Tiktok tracking data of U.S. citizens?
Business magazine Forbes says yes – which has made TikTok furious
The social media giant has shut down the explosive report.
Concerns have been raised about the data TikTok collects
But the social media giant has denied a Forbes report that a China-based team at its parent company ByteDance planned to track the locations of U.S. citizens
TikTok took to twitter to say it has never been used to “target” the American government, activists, public figures or journalists.
Adding that TikTok doesn’t collect precise location data from US users.
It follows a report by Forbes that says data would have been accessed without users’ knowledge or consent.
The U.S. business magazine cited documents it had seen, reporting ByteDance had planned to collect location data from U.S. users.
TikTok’s team said the report lacked “journalistic integrity”.
