New details of TikTok’s alleged surveillance of its users are emerging, including the China-founded app reportedly keeping a list of people who watch gay content and spying on a reporter through an account created for her cat.
TikTok maintained a list of users who watched lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender content, which was accessible to the company’s employees for at least a year, former employees told the Wall Street Journal.
Some of TikTok’s workers, however, feared the data their company collected could be used for blackmail and said viewers of gay content were not the only topics tracked in TikTok’s data, according to the Journal.“Safeguarding the privacy and security of people who use TikTok is one of our top priorities,” TikTok spokesperson Jason Grosse said Monday in an email. “TikTok does not identify individuals or infer sensitive information such as sexual orientation or race based on what they watch.
Ms. Criddle wrote that TikTok snooped on her via an account she created for her cat, Buffy, which she developed to test TikTok’s features. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that earlier versions of the appprecise GPS information from users and that TikTok may still be gathering such info from a small percentage of users who use an outdated version of the app.
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