{"id":1522830,"date":"2022-06-19T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T12:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1522830"},"modified":"2022-06-19T08:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T12:50:05","slug":"leaked-internal-meetings-reveal-chinas-tiktok-repeatedly-accessed-u-s-user-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-internal-meetings-reveal-chinas-tiktok-repeatedly-accessed-u-s-user-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Internal Meetings Reveal China&#039;s TikTok Repeatedly Accessed U.S. User Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleaked-internal-meetings-reveal-chinas-tiktok-repeatedly-accessed-u-s-user-data%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1522830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Recently leaked audio from over 80 internal meetings reveals that China-based employees of the massively popular app TikTok repeatedly accessedU.S. user data, despite the company\u2019s claims to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p><em>BuzzFeed News<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access?bftwnews&#038;utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that leaked audio from over 80 internal TikTok meetings reveals that China-based employees of the popular video sharing app have accessed U.S. user data on a repeated basis. The recordings are dated between September 2021 and January 2022 and include 14 statements from nine TikTok employees meeting to discuss \u201cProject Texas,\u201d a classified effort by U.S. employees to stop engineers in China from retrieving U.S. data.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17550450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/08\/ByteDance-CEO-Zhang-Yiming.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">ByteDance CEO Zhang Yiming (STR\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16833518\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chinese-Communist-U.S.-Consulate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16833518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chinese-Communist-U.S.-Consulate.jpg\" alt=\"The flag of China flies behind a security camera over the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco, Thursday, July 23, 2020. The Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a Chinese researcher who the FBI says lied about her military background. (AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Jeff Chiu)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the audio clips includes a TikTok director referring to a engineer of TikTok\u2019s parent company ByteDance as a \u201cMaster Admin,\u201d who has \u201caccess to everything.\u201d TikTok made an announcement after the report was published, attempting to head off the bad news by stating that \u201c100% of US user traffic is being routed to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,\u201d instead of being hosted at data centers in the U.S. and Singapore.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In a comment to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-10928485\/Leaked-audio-80-TikTok-meetings-reveal-China-based-employees-accessing-user-data.html\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>, a TikTok spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">As we\u2019ve publicly stated, we\u2019ve brought in world class internal and external security experts to help us strengthen our data security efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This is standard industry practice given the complexity of data security challenges. In May, we created a new in-house department, U.S. Data Security (USDS), with US-based leadership, to provide a greater level of focus and governance on US data security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The creation of this organization is part of our ongoing effort and commitment to strengthen our data protection policies and protocols, further protect our users, and build confidence in our systems and controls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In August of 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/08\/10\/report-chinas-tiktok-plans-to-sue-trump-administration-over-ban\/\">former President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning TikTok and the Chinese app WeChat in the U.S.<\/a> The reasoning behind the ban was the former President\u2019s belief that TikTok\u2019s \u201cdata collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans\u2019 personal and proprietary information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">That executive order was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/biden-touts-tight-us-europe-alliance-on-departure-for-g7-summit-putin-meeting\/\">revoked by President Joe Biden<\/a> last year, unbanning the app. Biden also called for \u201can evidence-based analysis to address the risks\u2019 from internet applications controlled by foreign entities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access?bftwnews&#038;utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc\"><em>BuzzFeed News\u00a0<\/em>here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently leaked audio from over 80 internal meetings reveals that China-based employees of the massively popular app TikTok repeatedly accessedU.S. user data, despite the company\u2019s claims to the contrary. 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