TikTok Tracked UK Journalist Via Her Cats Account
Cristina Criddle, a journalist living in London, received a call from TikTok two days before Christmas informing her that two of its workers, one in China and two in the US, had accessed user data from her personal account without her knowledge or authorization.
She describes it as “just really terrifying, horrible, and, to me, quite violating.”
“I was at my parents’ house with my teenage sister and my teenage cousins, and they are all constantly using TikTok. Whoa, should we be worried? they exclaimed.
Cristina, a Financial Times technology correspondent and a friend and former colleague of mine, has chosen to inform BBC News about what transpired because TikTok and its parent firm, ByteDance, have continuously denied that it ever occurs.
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In order to determine who was surreptitiously meeting with the press, TikTok has stated that personnel of its internal audit department compared Cristina’s IP address, which identifies a device’s location, with the IP data of an unidentified number of their own employees. In doing so, they “misused their authority” and were acting improperly.
Cristina is unaware of the duration or frequency of her tracking, although she is aware that it occurred last summer.
“If my location was being monitored 24/7, that’s not just limited to my actions at work – which wouldn’t be OK even if it was – but this was in my personal life as well,” the woman claims. It happened while I was out with