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2024-04-24 23:09:40 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6BE3EF76BBAB9A4455431EFD47BFAC1AF47607A8DC324D7248301B184C6772AC
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TikTok has itself admitted that it used its own app to spy on reporters as part of an attempt to track down the journalists’ sources. ByteDance (TikTok's parent company) employees, accessed the data to track the reporters' locations. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-bytedance-workers-fired-data-access-journalists https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-spying-internal-report-us-users Apple caught Tiktok spying users : https://lifeinmotion.com/warning-apple-catches-chinese-owned-tiktok-spying-on-users/
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