Other security issues at the sites have included unattended boxes of hard drives, illicit crypto mining, and a sanctioned supplier.| Forbes
TikTok and ByteDance staff's easy access to the friend lists of the First Family and public figures has created national security and privacy risks ahead of the election.| Forbes
Former employees claim the company placed pieces of pro-China content in its now-defunct US news app, TopBuzz, and censored negative stories about the Chinese government. ByteDance says it did no such thing.| BuzzFeed News
“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.| BuzzFeed News
Internal privacy experts worried that not having a corporate records retention policy could violate U.S. and EU laws. Years later, the company still doesn’t have one.| Forbes
TikTok is rebuilding its systems to keep US user data in the US and putting a new US-based team in control. But for now, that team reports to executives in China.| BuzzFeed News
