TikTok — Data Breach

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Jul 22, 2021→Jun 17, 2022

BuzzFeed News published leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings revealing that China-based ByteDance employees had repeatedly accessed US user data between September 2021 and January 2022, despite public assurances that American data was stored in the US. One member of TikTok's Trust and Safety team stated that 'everything is seen in China.' The revelations contradicted TikTok's congressional testimony and accelerated the push for Project Texas and legislative action.

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BuzzFeed News: Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China
NYT: TikTok Said U.S. User Data Was Accessed in China

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