TikTok fires back at Forbes, denies report of a plan to track specific US citizens using its app
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#64Z4A)
Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is strongly pushing back against a Forbes report alleging that its parent company wanted to use the video app to monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens."
In a series of tweets, TikTok accused Forbes of leaving off a vital part of its statement, which says that TikTok does not collect precise GPS location information from US users," despite the article's claims that its parent company ByteDance considered obtaining location data from U.S. users' devices."
3/ Neither TikTok nor ByteDance denied anything we reported, either in the pre-publication process, when we told them what we planned to report and asked for comment, or since then. They have also not requested a story update.
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