TikTok Has Been Quietly Sending Job Applicants' Personal Data to China

TikTok routes the personal data of job applicants through servers in China, and only discloses this to candidates in certain countries, Business Insider has discovered. From a report: US job candidates, notably, are not told their data will be routed through China. Some of the personal information TikTok says it collects about applicants is potentially highly sensitive, with the firm's own policies stating that it collects medical data; sex and race data; marital status; geolocation data, among many other categories. The revelation is an embarrassment for TikTok, which has spent much of 2020 maintaining that it is separate to its Chinese owner ByteDance, and fending off unproven insinuations by President Trump that it funnels user data to China. After being approached by Business Insider, TikTok said it would no longer store job applicant data in China.

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