ByteDance, the popular Chinese social media company, denied on Twitter accusations made by Forbes that it wanted to collect accurate GPS location data of users living in the United States using TikTok for monitoring purposes.
The application contact team completely denied the accusations recently written about them by a well-known business magazine, and said that they do not collect nor even store the location data of their users. The Forbes According to ByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk Management department, accurate GPS data was collected from various individuals.
This isn’t the first time TikTok has had to talk about a similar topic, as it has so far They also failed to prove the fact that they were sending data to the Chinese government about users. For this reason, for example, British Parliament Also delete your temporary account from the app as it is not considered secure.
2/ Specifically, Forbes chose not to include the part of our statement that disproved the usefulness of its primary claim: TikTok does not collect accurate GPS location information from US users, which means TikTok cannot monitor US users in the way the article suggested.
– TikTokComms (TikTokComms) October 20 2022
