In an unexpected revelation, TikTok has conceded that some data belonging to its US users is housed in China, despite previous implications that all data was contained within US-based servers.
TikTok served as a ‘dissemination apparatus’ for the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda.
A former executive alleges that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in China, had a group of Communist Party members in place to propagate core Communist principles, adding to the growing concerns
Montana is poised to be the initial state in the US to prohibit the downloading of TikTok.
On Friday, lawmakers in Montana passed a bill that would prohibit its residents from downloading the TikTok app, making Montana the first US state to impose such a ban.
All parliamentary devices have been banned from using TikTok.
Parliament has declared that TikTok will be blocked from “all parliamentary devices and the wider parliamentary network” due to cyber security concerns.
TikTok parent ByteDance has admitted that staff tracked two journalists’ locations.
Employees at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance were fired for improperly accessing data from two journalists’ accounts. This raises concerns about how user information is managed.