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A | Washington, Oct 21 (UNI) TikTok has denied a report that a China-based team at its parent company ByteDance planned to use the app to track the locations of US citizens.
The social media giant said on Twitter that it has never been used to "target" the American government, activists, public figures or journalists, a BBC report said.
The firm also says it does not collect precise location data from US users. It was responding to a report in Forbes that data would have been accessed without users' knowledge or consent.
The US business magazine, which cited documents it had seen, reported that ByteDance had started a monitoring project to investigate misconduct by current and former employees.
It said the project, which was run by a Beijing-based team, had planned to collect location data from a US citizen on at least two occasions.
The report said it was unclear whether American citizens' data was ever collected but there had been a plan to obtain location data from US users' devices.
The developers of apps have come under scrutiny from authorities around the world, especially over the data of military and intelligence personnel. TikTok is facing a $30 million fine in the UK, for failing to protect the privacy of children using the platform.
In 2020, a US national security panel ordered ByteDance to sell TikTok's American business over concerns that users' data could be passed to the Chinese government.
TikTok said it migrated US users' information to servers at Austin-headquartered Oracle this June, to address some regulatory issues.
TikTok is the world's fastest-growing social media app and has been downloaded more than 3.9 billion times.
In a series of tweets TikTok's communications team said the Forbes report lacked "both rigor and journalistic integrity".
It added that "Forbes chose not to include the portion of our statement that disproved the feasibility of its core allegation: TikTok does not collect precise GPS location information from US users, meaning TikTok could not monitor US users in the way the article suggested."
In response to a BBC request for comment a Forbes spokesperson said: "We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting."
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China's cybersecurity authority on Tuesday publicized ten typical cases in its crackdown on crimes involving the infringement of citizens' personal information. Among them was a case in which a criminal gang illicitly obtained highly sensitive data, including hotel check-in records, and sold the information at inflated prices to lawyers and private investigators. The suspects were subjected to criminal coercive measures.
Released via the official WeChat account of the cyberspace authority under China's Ministry of Public Security, the cases involve various forms of illegal infringement of citizens' personal-information. For instance, several of the cases involve illegal investigation operations conducted under the guise of "private detective" services.
In one case, a "legal consultancy" studio established by two men and their associates illegally obtained highly sensitive personal information, including hotel check-in records, vehicle records and travel trajectories, through overseas social platforms. Operating under the pretext of "legal support" and "investigative assistance," they then promoted their services online to generate leads and sold the information at premium rates to lawyers, private investigators, and information brokers.
These clients used the data to gain undue advantages in divorce proceedings, debt collection, and commercial disputes. Investigations revealed that the gang had illegally obtained over 100,000 pieces of citizens' personal information, involving illicit proceeds of more than one million yuan ($148,000).
To date, all ten suspects in this case have been placed under criminal coercive measures in accordance with the law, the authority said.
Another criminal ring led by a 34yearold man surnamed Wu advertised a full range of private investigation services on social media. Apart from illegally obtaining targets' travel trajectories and hotel checkin records, it also hired operatives to conduct illegal activities including GPS tracking, physical surveillance, covert filming and audio recording.
This operation formed a clearly divided and well-concealed illicit industrial chain combining online data retrieval and offline tracking, and provided illegal personal-information services to 12 individuals, generating over one million yuan in illegal proceeds. Currently, the six suspects in this case have been transferred for prosecution.
Other offences featured in the cases include schemes that coerce merchants into handing over buyers' personal information in exchange for boosted online ratings.
A criminal syndicate headed by a 36yearold man surnamed Dong deployed shared power banks to budget motels free of charge and offered revenue shares to secure partnerships. In return, the gang required that the motels illegally supply guests' personal details such as names and checkin times in exchange for services including manufactured positive reviews and removal of negative feedback.
The group also manipulated ratings across multiple internet platforms via followup phone calls and illicit plugins for illegal profits. It unlawfully gathered over one million pieces of citizens' personal information and tampered with more than 100,000 online reviews, with illicit turnover topping 11 million yuan. The 33 involved suspects have been formally indicted.
Other disclosed cases of personal-information infringement involved schools, education and training institutions, and ophthalmic hospitals. Suspects involved in the cases have either been subject to coercive measures or prosecuted in accordance with the law.
Global Times
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