Amid heightened vigilance against information leaks to the Chinese government via TikTok, a video-sharing app operated by a Chinese company, an employee of the operating company of TikTok wanted to clarify the sources of multiple reporters in charge of interviews. , It became clear that he was trying to illegally obtain the data of the reporter's location information.
On the 22nd, the American business magazine Forbes reported that an employee of TikTok's operating company, ByteDance in China, was trying to illegally obtain the location information data of several reporters who were in charge of interviewing TikTok.
The company acknowledged the unauthorized access and dismissed the employee involved.
Regarding TikTok, American media companies reported the fact that ByteDance employees repeatedly accessed data of users in the United States based on recordings of internal meetings and internal emails. It has been reported that there is a possibility that it has passed to the Chinese government via.
In response to this, ByteDance seems to have tried to clarify the source of information based on location information, where the reporters are getting information from.
In the United States, the Senate last week passed a bill banning the use of TikTok on government-affiliated terminals, and some universities announced that they would ban the use of TikTok on university terminals and networks. There is growing concern over information leaks to the Chinese government.