Users in horror as TikTok claims Chinese employees can access European users data

November 03, 2022 By Aaem Joshi

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TikTok is a contentious video-sharing app that has previously caused users to express privacy concerns. When using the app, some users think they are being watched. The ByteDance-owned app, according to the most recent report, has amended its privacy policy so that its staff members from other nations, including China, can access your personal data on the site. TikTok said that its workers can review your app data on Wednesday, Nov. 2, according to an article in The Guardian. By all measures, this is thought to be the best situation for the platform to provide consumers with a "consistent, entertaining, and safe" experience. TikTok

The article also mentions that workers from the US, Singapore, Israel, Canada, and Brazil have access to the system's stored data in addition to the fact that user information for Europeans is dispersed everywhere. What Drives TikTok's Need for Data Access? Accessing user data can aid in enhancing the platform's algorithm performance, according to ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. This would imply that it might aid the app in identifying rogue accounts and bots. Additionally, this might suggest online information that users would find interesting. A TikTok chief executive named Shou Zi Chew emphasized in a letter from back in July that the data being viewed by international personnel is only a "limited range of non-sensitive" user data. TikTok

In other words, viewing the data coming from American users is not a problem if the TikTok security team in the US provides the go-ahead for data access. It won't matter to every consumer, according to Chew, because Chinese government officials do not have access to this data. The modification is in keeping with the privacy policy revision, which will become effective on December 2. The UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area would all be affected by this. Critics, who argue that user data should be held in a secure location for confidentiality reasons, continue to question the legislation. Brendan Carr, the commissioner of the US FCC, stated to Reuters that TikTok ought to be outlawed right now in the US. He continued by expressing his mistrust of the way ByteDance manages all of the app's US-based data.

By Aaem Joshi

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Users in horror as TikTok claims Chinese employees can access European users data

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