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New stories say the US Justice Division is investigating TikTok-owner ByteDance over current revelations that staff tracked journalists in an try to seek out out who leaked firm knowledge to the press.
The Justice Division and US Lawyer within the Japanese District of Virginia “subpoenaed data from ByteDance concerning efforts by its staff to entry US journalists’ location data or different personal consumer knowledge utilizing the TikTok app,” Forbes reported yesterday. “In line with two sources, the FBI has been conducting interviews associated to the surveillance.”
The investigation was additionally confirmed immediately in New York Occasions and Wall Road Journal articles citing nameless sources. The investigation reportedly started in December. ByteDance is predicated in China, and TikTok is dealing with the opportunity of being banned within the US if it would not sever ties with its China-based homeowners.
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