Tag: Forbes

  • There are federal agencies that have bans on government-issued devices

    There are federal agencies that have bans on government-issued devices

    After Forbes claimed TikTok’s parent ByteDance wanted to use the app to “monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens,” TikTok accused Forbes of leaving off a vital part of its statement. In a series of tweets, TikTok accused Forbes of left off a vital part of its statement, which says TikTok does not…

  • Congress will prohibit TikTok from the US government phone system.

    Congress will prohibit TikTok from the US government phone system.

    TikTok on Thursday refuted a Forbes report that alleged the ByteDance-parent company wanted to use the video app to “monitor the personal location” of American citizens. TikTok said ByteDance’s Internal Audit team didn’t collect preciseGPS location information from US users. TikTok also claimed Forbes left off a vital part of its statement, which said ByteDance…

  • China is a hot new place for US election misinformation.

    China is a hot new place for US election misinformation.

    TikTok-parent ByteDance was planning to track two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship with the company”, Forbes reported. ByteDance’s Internal Audit team planned to surveilling at least two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship with the company”, the report added. This comes weeks after ByteDance said that it had stopped providing…

  • TikTok denies a plan to track specific US citizens using its app.

    TikTok denies a plan to track specific US citizens using its app.

    TikTok-parent ByteDance plans to monitor at least two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship” with the company, Forbes reported. The internal audit team of ByteDance allegedly planned on surveilling at least two Americans who had “never had an employment relationship with the company”. Forbes claimed that ByteDance did not reveal who was going…