Posted on 10/20/2022 4:35:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
ByteDance’s Internal Audit and Risk Control department
The team primarily conducts investigations into potential misconduct by current and former ByteDance employees. But in at least two cases, the Internal Audit team also planned to collect TikTok data about the location of a U.S. citizen who had never had an employment relationship with the company...the plan was for a Beijing-based ByteDance team to obtain location data from U.S. users’ devices.
TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan said that TikTok collects approximate location information based on users’ IP addresses to “among other things...detect and prevent fraud and inauthentic behavior."
ByteDance's Internal Audit team was planning to use this location information to surveil individual American citizens, not to target ads or any of these other purposes. Forbes is not disclosing the nature and purpose of the planned surveillance referenced in the materials in order to protect sources. TikTok and ByteDance did not answer questions about whether Internal Audit has specifically targeted any members of the U.S. government, activists, public figures or journalists.
The Internal Audit and Risk Control team runs regular audits and investigations of TikTok and ByteDance employees, for infractions like conflicts of interest and misuse of company resources, and also for leaks of confidential information. Internal materials reviewed by Forbes show that senior executives, including TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, have ordered the team to investigate individual employees, and that it has investigated employees even after they left the company.
The internal audit team uses a data request system known to employees as the “green channel,” according to documents and records from Lark, ByteDance’s internal office management software. These documents and records show that “green channel” requests for information about U.S. employees have pulled that data from mainland China.
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Daniel 7:23 will happen
There will be no escaping Big Brother
Chinese version of KGB is called the Ministry of State Security. (MSS>
You think for one second the MSS **does not** have a pipeline into TikTok?
Anyone that thinks otherwise is a fool, at best.
I took Tik Tok off my phone the day after I bought it.
The “team” will work hand in hand with the US network of Chinese Ministry of State Security offices across the US.
Actually, the MSS (Guoanbu) is much more that just the standard image of the Russian KGB/FSB. It combines: KGB, CIA, NSA, military special forces, and military police.
The MSS conducts military operations around the world, spy operations and internal corruption operations like sending drug precursors to branches in various countries who then resell the ingredients to local criminal organizations.
The Chinese MSS Mexican cartel sells fentanyl precursors to the Mexican drug cartels who then sell it to their branches and distribution centers across the US.
TikTok, ByteDance like all corporations/companies in Mainland China are run and managed by the CCP. The CCP runs the MSS.
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