{"id":1704943,"date":"2022-10-20T23:03:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T03:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704943"},"modified":"2022-10-20T23:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T03:03:39","slug":"tiktoks-parent-company-in-china-planned-to-use-platform-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktoks-parent-company-in-china-planned-to-use-platform-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans-report\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok\u2019s Parent Company In China Planned To Use Platform To Track Locations Of Specific Americans: Report"},"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\">32<\/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%2Ftiktoks-parent-company-in-china-planned-to-use-platform-to-track-locations-of-specific-americans-report%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=1704943&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tiktok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok\u2019s<\/a> parent company in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/communist-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a> reportedly planned to use the platform to track the location of specific American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The team that was going to track American citizens was\u00a0ByteDance\u2019s Internal Audit and Risk Control department, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emilybaker-white\/2022\/10\/20\/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data\/?sh=74ad453d6c2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> in Forbes. The person who oversees that department is Beijing-based executive Song Ye, who reports to ByteDance co-founder and CEO Rubo Liang.<\/p>\n<p>The team is supposed to investigate alleged misconduct by current and former employees, but has allegedly in multiple instances \u201cplanned to collect TikTok data about the location of a U.S. citizen who had never had an employment relationship with the company,\u201d the report said, citing documents that Forbes viewed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear whether the team collected the location and data of the targeted individuals, the report said, adding that the intended use of the data was to \u201csurveil individual American citizens, not to target ads or any of these other purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forbes said that TikTok is reportedly close to signing a contract with the Treasury Department\u2019s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) after the committee has been investigating the platform to see if the Chinese government is accessing data on American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden (D) has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/president-biden-revokes-trumps-attempted-tiktok-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">far friendlier<\/a> to TikTok than former President Donald Trump (R), who repeatedly warned about the danger that the platform could pose to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The story comes after lawyers for the company told U.S. lawmakers that in order for data on U.S. citizens to be accessed, only limited \u201cauthorized personnel\u201d would be allowed to under \u201cprotocols being developed with the U.S. Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTikTok appears to remain \u2014 despite the claims of its US executives \u2014 beholden to its China-based leadership,\u201d Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) tweeted. \u201cWith each new report, there\u2019s further evidence that TikTok\u2019s claimed \u2018independence\u2019 is illusory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Ranking Member on the House Oversight Committee, responded to the story by saying that it was \u201cclear TikTok is just the arm of the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@GOPoversight\u00a0has pressed for clarification from the social media company on their data sharing practices,\u201d Comer said. \u201cAny failure to cooperate is a serious national security threat. Republicans will hold TikTok accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York Times tech reporter Ryan Mac noted separately that it was \u201ckind of telling\u201d that TikTok CEO Shou Chew \u201crarely does interviews, and when he does it\u2019s never with a journalist and usually with billionaire investors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple stories have come out on the company\u2019s data practices, its surveillance tactics, and its relationship with its Chinese parent and execs who call the shots,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe company and its CEO rarely engage with the press on the substance of those stories.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok\u2019s parent company in China reportedly planned to use the platform to track the location of specific American citizens. The team that was going to track American citizens was\u00a0ByteDance\u2019s Internal Audit and Risk Control department, according to a report in Forbes. The person who oversees that department is Beijing-based executive Song Ye, who reports to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}