The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are investigating Chinese company ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, for surveilling Americans, according to Forbes. The FBI is conducting interviews on the same subject. ByteDance employees used TikTok data last year to track the location of journalists who were reporting on the company and gained access to their IP addresses in an attempt to see if they had been in the same location as ByteDance employees. The company has acknowledged the surveillance and condemned the employees responsible for it. ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources.

Source: Forbes March 17, 2023 15:58 UTC