FBI’s Investigation into TikTok’s Roofing Company ByteDance

TikTok, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, has recently faced bans from many places such as the UK, USA, Canada and the European Union due to the use of user data. In the midst of all this is now the roof company of the platform. to ByteDance It turned out that another blow had come.

According to a report by Forbes citing people familiar with the matter US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and US Department of Justicelaunched an investigation against the China-based company.

The investigation comes after ByteDance admitted in recent months that its employees were spying on some journalists.

The reason for the investigation is that some of ByteDance’s unauthorized use of TikTok data to spy on journalists and track their location. Chinese tech giant ByteDance used TikTok to spy on two journalists in December. four employees were laid off announced and accepted the event. You can find the details of what happened in our content here.

According to a new report by Emily Baker-White, one of the vetting journalists, ministry officials are concerned about efforts to access the location information of journalists from ByteDance employees. asked for information. On the other hand, it was stated that the FBI is also continuing negotiations regarding the surveillance incident.

ByteDance spokesperson Jennifer Banks said in a statement on the subject, “We strongly denounced anyone found to be associated with the incident and they no longer work at ByteDance. Our internal investigation is ongoing and all official inquiries come to us. we will cooperate” used the phrases.

The investigation comes at a time that has already been quite challenging for ByteDance. As we mentioned at the beginning, TikTok has been banned on official phones in many countries in recent days. On the other hand, yesterday’s news showed that US officials demanded the sale of TikTok from ByteDance. This news came after allegations that TikTok could be separated from its Chinese owner and become independent.