ByteDance Spying Scandal Isn’t So Much About TikTok, But About The US’s Failure To Pass A Comprehensive Privacy Law

Techdirt. 2022-10-25

Summary:

Emily Baker-White has quite the story over at Forbes, revealing how ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, apparently planned to have its “Internal Audit and Risk Control” department spy on the location of some American citizens: The team primarily conducts investigations into potential misconduct by current and former ByteDance employees. But in at least […]

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https://www.techdirt.com/2022/10/25/bytedance-spying-scandal-isnt-so-much-about-tiktok-but-about-the-uss-failure-to-pass-a-comprehensive-privacy-law/

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Authors:

Mike Masnick

Date tagged:

10/25/2022, 21:41

Date published:

10/25/2022, 13:45