An internal TikTok tool can access some personal data of Indian users who used the app before India's 2020 ban; an employee jokingly called the tool “NSA-To-Go”
which the employee calls “NSA To Go”—that allows TikTok to obtain sensitive info on users, including real-time updates on U.S. users “a key to building a ‘digital dossier’” @Ali_Lev reports https://twitter.com/... Emil Protalinski / @epro : All US politicians targeting TikTok should start calling the app “NSA-To-Go” https://twitter.com/... Alexandra S. Levine / @ali_lev : Officials in the highest levels of the U.S. government see a TikTok ban as a solution to national security concerns about the app, pointing to India as a model. But “we can't ban them from the data they already have,” says the NSA's former general counsel:https://www.forbes.com/ ... @forbes : India's 150 million users were forced to stop using TikTok in 2020, but employees at the company and its parent ByteDance can still mine some of Indian users' most sensitive data. https://www.forbes.com/... Thanks: @alexrkonrad
NEW: India banned TikTok. But TikTok and ByteDance employees in US and China can still access years of Indians' data. “I don't think they're aware of how much of their data is exposed to China right now, even with the ban in place,” one employee told me: https://www.forbes.com/..…
NEW: a TikTok employee revealed to @forbes that TikTok maintains an internal mapping tool—which the employee calls “NSA To Go”—that allows TikTok to obtain sensitive info on users, including real-time updates on U.S. users “a key to building a ‘digital dossier’” @Ali_Lev reports …
Every day TikTok is not banned, 130 million Americans are influenced by the CCP intelligence services algorithms and the CCP has access to the data on the mobile device. All the CFIUS negotiations won't change a darn thing. Too much evidence. https://twitter.com/...
Damn. One wild company! “India Banned TikTok In 2020. TikTok Still Has Access To Years Of Indians' Data” “...almost anyone at the companies with basic access to their tools can retrieve and analyze granular data about past TikTok users in India. ” https://www.forbes.com/... https…
Officials in the highest levels of the U.S. government see a TikTok ban as a solution to national security concerns about the app, pointing to India as a model. But “we can't ban them from the data they already have,” says the NSA's former general counsel:https://www.forbes.com/ …
India's 150 million users were forced to stop using TikTok in 2020, but employees at the company and its parent ByteDance can still mine some of Indian users' most sensitive data. https://www.forbes.com/...