Forbes reported that a team at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in China planned to track the location of US citizens. In a series of tweets, TikTok denied the allegation, claiming that it does not collect the precise location data of US citizens.
Forbes said that its report was based on documents it had reviewed. It added that ByteDance had started a monitoring project to look into misconduct by former and current employees. The project, which was being run by a team in Beijing, could collect the location data of US users. Forbes said that it was not clear if the data was actually collected, though it could be seen...
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