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> Over the summer, a few employees on a ByteDance team responsible for monitoring employee conduct tried to find the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. In doing so, the employees gained access to the IP addresses and other data of two reporters and a small number of people connected to the reporters via their TikTok accounts. They were trying to determine if those individuals were within proximity of ByteDance employees, according to the company, which added that the efforts failed to find any leaks.

If ByteDance (TikTok) can do it, you know the government can already do it too.

Love him, or hate him, Trump was right. TikTok should have been banned.

Ugh this is awful, what a horrible abusive system that we must fight against

Oo look at that dog dancing with a cat on its head! 😅

This completely undermines their claim that they would never abuse or exploit user data. Given that ByteDance is headquartered in China, and that the Chinese government has a habit of regularly engaging in harassment, intimidation, and disinformation in other countries, it's pretty clear that TikTok presents a massive security risk.

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> Continue reading the main story In the hopes of allaying national security fears, ByteDance has moved the data of U.S. users to a cloud storage system operated by Oracle, the Silicon Valley software company.

> TikTok has been locked in negotiations with the Biden administration on that security plan to move all U.S. data and erect walls around the data to prevent access by the Chinese government.

> "This new development reinforces serious concerns that the social media platform has permitted TikTok engineers and executives in the People's Republic of China to repeatedly access private data of U.S. users despite repeated claims to lawmakers and users that this data was protected," Mr. Warner said.

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> If ByteDance (TikTok) can do it

You mean access the user data for their own users? Yeah... any company can do that. Not all employees can, but some can.

> This completely undermines their claim that they would never abuse or exploit user data.

Sort of? But they allege that some employees improperly accessed this data. There is no way to completely prevent that in any company. Some people always need such access, in order to do their jobs.