“We have steadfastly complied, and continue to remain in full compliance, with the Government of India order since it was implemented,” TikTok spokesperson Jason Grosse said in an email. Neither company would say whether TikTok continues to use the data it collected from its past users in India. The TikTok employee described it as a key to building a “digital dossier” on any user, including those with private accounts. The same UID can be used across TikTok and ByteDance’s other internal tools to find even more information about the person-including their search behavior. Staff can plug in a TikToker’s unique identifier or UID, a string of numbers tied to more detailed data about the person, to retrieve the TikTok usernames (often, first and last name) of hundreds of friends and acquaintances the region where they live and how they share TikTok content with phone contacts and users across other social platforms. One social mapping tool-which the TikTok employee jokingly called “NSA-To-Go”-can spit out a list of any public or private user’s closest connections on TikTok and personally identifiable information about them, and it still pulls up the TikTok profiles of people in India, according to a review by Forbes. Mike McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal critic of the app, saying the Chinese Communist Party is using it to “manipulate and monitor its users while it gobbles up Americans’ data to be used for their malign activities.“I don’t think aware of how much of their data is exposed to China right now, even with the ban in place.” Meanwhile, lawmakers in both the House and Senate have been moving forward with legislation that would give the Biden administration more power to clamp down on TikTok.
The legislation does allow for TikTok use in certain cases, including for national security, law enforcement and research purposes. The White House already does not allow TikTok on its devices.Ĭongress passed the “No TikTok on Government Devices Act” in December as part of a sweeping government funding package. The Office of Management and Budget called the guidance a “critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data.” Some agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and State, already have restrictions in place.
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