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      • Supo told Yle that Chinese law requires Chinese companies and individuals to assist the country's intelligence authorities if necessary. This means Chinese intelligence can gain access to Tiktok user data, regardless of the views or wishes of the platform's parent company, Bytedance.
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  2. Jun 8, 2023 · CNN — US officials have long insisted the Chinese government may be able to view the personal information of TikTok users — but that claim was purely speculative. Until now.

  3. Mar 24, 2023 · Asia Fact Check Lab (AFCL) found no evidence to support that TikTok intentionally shared or plans to share user data with the Chinese government. But TikTok’s subservient relationship to its ...

    • Shen Ke
  4. Mar 22, 2023 · If Chinese agencies can't access TikTok's data legally, they can just go in through the back door, Western officials allege. China's cyber-spies are among the best in the world, and their job will be made easier if datasets or digital infrastructure are housed in their home territory.

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    TikTok has been a lightning rod for a shift in sentiment that has seen the UK, EU, Canada and the US ban the app from government devices on grounds of security. TikTok narrowly missed being banned completely from the US in 2020 by then president, Donald Trump. That threat has now been revivedunder the Biden administration. Much of the worry about T...

    Two further reports by highly respected research groups at Citizen labs and the Georgia Institute for Technologyset out to resolve whether TikTok was a threat to national security, or to users in general. A detailed analysis of the code in the app found that TikTok was based on Douyin, the version for Chinese users, which has features that make it ...

    Companies like Facebook are clear as to why they gather your data: they use information to sell advertising. The question then is, what is the real intention behind TikTok gathering user data? The Citizen Lab report noted a lingering doubt that dormant features written for Douyin but not used in TikTok could be enabled by TikTok’s computer servers....

  5. Jul 27, 2024 · In legal documents filed on Friday, the US Department of Justice alleged some of TikTok’s US user data had been stored in China and the company was able to collect data based on users’...

    • Stefania Palma
  6. Jan 9, 2024 · Supo told Yle that Chinese law requires Chinese companies and individuals to assist the country's intelligence authorities if necessary. This means Chinese intelligence can gain access to Tiktok user data, regardless of the views or wishes of the platform's parent company, Bytedance.

  7. Aug 15, 2022 · In China, in particular, the government is already experimenting with its Social Credit System, so accessing TikTok data might allow it to take its plans to a new level and create accurate...

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