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# TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens
- URL: https://werd.io/tiktok-parent-bytedance-planned-to-use-tiktok-to-monitor-the/
- Published: 2022-10-21T07:23:39.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-21T07:23:39.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“But the material reviewed by Forbes indicates that ByteDance's Internal Audit team was planning to use this location information to surveil individual American citizens, not to target ads or any of these other purposes.” [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/)\]