{"id":1784633,"date":"2022-12-23T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784633"},"modified":"2022-12-23T07:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T12:04:22","slug":"tiktok-admits-to-tracking-journalists-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-admits-to-tracking-journalists-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Admits to Tracking Journalists&#8217; Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Ftiktok-admits-to-tracking-journalists-locations%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=1784633&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/BIZ-TIKTOK-TEACHERS-DMT.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>China-based TikTok owner ByteDance has admitted to analyzing personal data of several users of the app, including two journalists, as part of an investigation into leaks.<\/p>\n<p>Two employees working in China and two in the U.S. have been fired as a result, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/22\/technology\/byte-dance-tik-tok-internal-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes as the app is increasingly banned on government devices and follows years of U.S. officials warning the Chinese Communist Party could leverage its tight grip on corporations to influence and spy on Americans through the app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two targeted reporters worked for BuzzFeed News and the Financial Times. ByteDance employees improperly accessed their personal data, and that of several people connected to them, to determine whether they had been in proximity to potential leakers working for the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation didn\u2019t find any leaks, according to an email sent to ByteDance employees Thursday, the Times reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the email, ByteDance general counsel Erich Andersen condemned the fired employees, the Financial Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e873b98a-9623-45b3-b97c-444a2fde5874\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. He wrote that a \u201cmisguided plan was developed and carried out by a few individuals within the Internal Audit department this past summer,\u201d adding they had \u201cmisused their authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another email, ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo said the company needs to \u201cdeeply reflect on our actions and think about how we can prevent similar incidents from happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew emailed employees to say the company takes \u201cdata security incredibly seriously,\u201d highlighting efforts to store data in the U.S. as a \u201ctestament to that commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company has said all American data is being routed through U.S.-based servers owned by tech giant Oracle, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/17\/technology\/tiktok-oracle-servers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported by<\/a> the New York Times. It had said historical data \u2013 which is what now-fired employees accessed over the summer \u2013 would eventually be deleted from Chinese servers.<\/p>\n<p>Company officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmilitarynews.com\/2022\/09\/video-tiktok-exec-wont-say-under-oath-if-chinese-communists-are-accessing-us-user-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied and dodged questions<\/a> about whether private American data can be accessed in China amid reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">including from<\/a> BuzzFeed News, indicating that it can and sometimes is.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, BuzzFeed said it was \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by the news and intends \u201cto review our legal options moving forward,\u201d the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>This was a breaking news story. The details were periodically updated as more information became available.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China-based TikTok owner ByteDance has admitted to analyzing personal data of several users of the app, including two journalists, as part of an investigation into leaks. Two employees working in China and two in the U.S. have been fired as a result, the New York Times reported.\u00a0 The revelation comes as the app is increasingly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1784636,"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":[547],"tags":[6962,5216,5458,5313,5598,3819,6248,10103],"class_list":["post-1784633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-admits","tag-bongino","tag-journalists","tag-locations","tag-report","tag-tiktok","tag-tracking"],"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\/1784633","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=1784633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}