From the You Should Have Known Better Department; Emily Baker-White, writing in BuzzFeed, notes that TikTok “US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China.” No surprise at all there, kinda like the crypto crashes. An excerpt:
“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.
Many of these access attempts have supposedly been from a team assigned to check security, but there is not yet any such absolute block to Chinese data access. Be careful out there…