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Leaked Audio From 80 Internal #TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From #China

source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access

“Everything is seen in China,” said a member of TikTok’s Trust and Safety department in a September 2021 meeting. In another September meeting, a director referred to one #Beijing - based engineer as a “Master Admin” who “has access to everything.”

Why should things be different in China than in the US? The only difference is that we cannot say with certainty whether Chinese #intelligence services have access. In the US, we know thanks to #Snowden.

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Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China

“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.

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