The company's COO was pressed by members of the Senate to answer questions about the app's security.
detailing how “engineers in China had access to US data between September 2021 and January 2022, at the very least.” In one recording seen by, a director called one Beijing-based engineer a “Master Admin” with “access to everything.” Whether traffic was being routed through the US or not, ByteDance employees in the PRC seemingly had access to it, at least for a time.
With TikTok’s overall data handling processes under scrutiny, its decision to collect biometric data from US users is understandably drawing ire from lawmakers. In June last year, it updated itsto include a new section called “Image and Audio Information” as part of “information we collect automatically.” It stated that TikTok may “collect information about the images and audio that are part of your User Content,” listing examples like identifying objects seen or the words spoken in a post.
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