(New York Composite Electric) The United States is investigating whether Tiktok's Chinese -funded parent company's byte beating is targeted at U.S. citizens, especially science and technology reporters.
Bloomberg reported that anonymous people who asked for anonymous said that the Criminal Department of the US Department of Justice and the FBI (FBI) were conducting the investigation.
According to the New York Times, the Criminal Department of the US Department of Justice, the FBI and the Eastern District of Virginia are investigating by the Chinese government's closely related bytes.
Three sources said that the survey began in December last year, and it seemed to be related to the data of byte beating acknowledging that their employees were not properly obtained by the US Tiktok users, including data from two American journalists and some of their colleagues.
A spokesman for the US Department of Justice will not comment on the report.
Forbes said earlier that the U.S. procuratorial organs had sent a subpoena to bytes because its employees tried to obtain the location information of American journalists and other private user data.
Byte beating subsequently issued a statement, which strongly condemned the personal behavior involving these activities, stating that the relevant personnel have been fired, and the company will cooperate with any official investigation.
The US government notify that byte beating must be sold Tiktok shares
On the other hand, the U.S. government has informed the bytes of bytes and must sell Tiktok shares, otherwise Tiktok will face the possibility of being banned in the United States.This is the biggest action that the U.S. government is going to take Tiktok.
U.S. officials have always had concerns about the Chinese government's data and computing algorithms to control the application, and there are concerns at the level of privacy and national security.Tiktok has hundreds of millions of users in the United States and is particularly popular among young groups.
Tiktok CEO Zhou will be funded next Thursday (23rd) to attend the US Congress hearing to proof of the company's privacy policies and how to protect children from the impact of improper content.