threat to u.s. user data. forbes said some of their reporters were being surveilled by bytedance who tracked them by accessing their i.p. addresses and user data trying to see if their paths crossed with any of bytedance employees. tiktok spokesperson telling fox the misconduct of certain individuals who are no longer employed at bytedance was a misuse of their authority to obtain access to user data. it is unacceptable and not in line with our efforts to earn the trust of our users. we take data security very seriously and will continue to enhance our access protocols which have already been significantly improved and hardened since this incident took place. this news comes as congress moved to ban tiktok on government devices. some in congress want a total ban in the u.s. because they do not think that beijing-based app can be trusted not to access u.s. user data. senator mark warner telling forbes the d.o.j., who has been
this is nothing more than a chinese communist party spy operation on millions of americans. tiktok has been trying to convince the u.s. government it s not that. the company wants to cut a deal with lawmakers that alleviates their national security concerns but keeps tiktok under chinese ownership. i think one of the reasons we re struggling to effectively regulate them is we don t really understand how they work and weigh can t prove the harmful impact that i believe they are having. but now lawmakers are getting a look at how tiktok works and they don t like it. forbes reports some of their reporters were being secretly surveilled by tiktok s parent company bytedance. the chinese owned app. was trying to figure out who at tiktok was leaking information to these reporters. bytedance tracked them by accessing their i.p. addresses and tiktok user data. a tiktok spokes fern telling fox they have made changes saying, quote: the misconduct of certain vits who are no longer employed a
america. they hate us, and that we should be doing everything we can to protect the citizens of this country from them and their actions. so today, in our state, i called on the south dakota investment council to do a review of how we invest taxpayer dollars. they have seven days to get that review to me. they are conducting that. in fact, i was notified today that they have already pulled funds out of two chinese companies that we were investing in apparently here in our state, and in seven days we ll look at other funds that may have a presence from communist china. i think it s important that we not only look at the real threat that china is, how they are gathering information on our citizens, how they are using it against us, how they are buying up our ag land and buying up our food supply systems besides building up their military, stealing our i.p. and manipulating their currency. they have a long term plan to dominate the united states of america and destroy us, and republicans
cnn s john miller is following this for us. what more do we know about these two men and the alleged threat? we know how this started. it started with online threats that started apeefring days ago. fbi joint terrorism task force and new york city police were m notified about the traffic in the twittersphere. they were able to trace the i.p. address to a work location. and when they spoke to people there, they got the name of an individual. they started searching for him. ended up searching a friend s apartment late last night, where they came up with the ghost gun with the extended magazine. they were both the subject of a citywide alert that went to thousands and thousands police officers smartphones with a photo. according to the new york city police department, two mta metropolitan transit authority police officers spotted them in penn station last night, just
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