TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.
Innovation Daily Cover TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens Illustration by Stephanie Jones FOR FORBES; Photo by George Peters/GETTY IMAGES By Emily Baker-White , Former Senior Writer. Oct 20, 2022, 03:24pm EDT Updated Dec 14, 2025, 01:21pm EST The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent. A China-based team at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the TikTok app to monitor the personal location of some
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- congress.gov/118/crec/2024/03/13/170/45/modified/CREC-2024-03-13-pt1-PgH1163-2.htmcongress.gov
- TikTok and the Sorting Hat - Remains of the Dayeugenewei.com
- How TikTok Holds Our Attention | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- Seeing Like an Algorithm - Remains of the Dayeugenewei.com
- TikTok doesn't need Americagarbageday.email
- Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok – The White Housewhitehouse.gov
- TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viralforbes.com
- American Idle - Remains of the Dayeugenewei.com
- ⏰ Exactly how concerned should we be about TikTok?newpublic.substack.com
- Opinion | How to Track President Trump - The New York Timesnytimes.com
- TikTok Demographics, Algorithm & Stats (2026) | posterlyposter.ly
- H. RES. 1051 (Introduced-in-House)congress.gov