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The platform will be held accountable in court for transferring users personal data to China.
The US Department of Justice has filed charges against TikTok, saying the app transferred US users ' personal information to China and allowed them to be profiled in relation to sensitive topics.
The charges are set out in a document filed by the US government in response to attempts by TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to challenge laws requiring the sale of the platform's US operations or its closure.
According to the document, TikTok employees used an internal tool called Lark for internal communications. The DOJ alleges that a significant amount of restricted US user data (including personal information) was transferred via Lark to Chinese servers and made available to ByteDance employees in China.
The situation is compounded by the fact that the document claims that there are internal search tools developed by Chinese ByteDance engineers to collect data from TikTok users. The tools were able to collect information about users based on their content or statements, including views on gun control, abortion, and religion. The collected information can be seen in China.
It is also claimed that TikTok tools allow you to block content based on the user's use of certain words. While these policies were primarily applied to users in China, there is a possibility that some of them may have been applied to users outside of China as well.
The document also details the efforts of Oracle, which aspired to become the American technology partner of ByteDance. Oracle offered to segment TikTok data to identify information about users from the United States, segment it, and store it in the United States. However, the US government considered such a proposal insufficient, as it provided for the transfer of a significant amount of user data from the US back to ByteDance and China, and also supported close cooperation between TikTok's US operations and ByteDance management.
The Justice Department noted that even if Oracle had taken on the task of verifying the TikTok source code, which is 2 billion lines long as of 2022, it would have taken at least 3 years. In addition, the source code is constantly updated, which makes the task almost impossible even for such a large player as Oracle.
The document also notes that Oracle could face the need to sort data using untested and experimental tools to determine whether the information was transmitted for legitimate commercial reasons or at the request of the Chinese authorities. The Ministry of Justice claims that neither Oracle nor other technology providers could guarantee the correct execution of the task.
The trial on the charges is scheduled for September 16. Perhaps even more sensational details will emerge during the hearings, as significant parts of the document remain classified.
TikTok reacted to the US actions on social networks, saying that the US Constitution is on the side of the company and the US government is taking unprecedented steps, hiding behind classified information. TikTok representatives expressed confidence in their victory in court.
In early March, a group of congressmen introduced a bill that aims to force the Chinese technology giant ByteDance (owner of TikTok) to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner within 6 months, otherwise the application's activity in the United States will be discontinued.
In response, the Chinese authorities criticized Washington for putting pressure on TikTok. The Chinese government made it clear to ByteDance from Beijing that it would prefer to ban the app in the United States rather than sell its American business. In parallel, it became known that TikTok may be preparing a lawsuit against the United States as part of the fight for the freedom of the application.
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The US Department of Justice has filed charges against TikTok, saying the app transferred US users ' personal information to China and allowed them to be profiled in relation to sensitive topics.
The charges are set out in a document filed by the US government in response to attempts by TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to challenge laws requiring the sale of the platform's US operations or its closure.
According to the document, TikTok employees used an internal tool called Lark for internal communications. The DOJ alleges that a significant amount of restricted US user data (including personal information) was transferred via Lark to Chinese servers and made available to ByteDance employees in China.
The situation is compounded by the fact that the document claims that there are internal search tools developed by Chinese ByteDance engineers to collect data from TikTok users. The tools were able to collect information about users based on their content or statements, including views on gun control, abortion, and religion. The collected information can be seen in China.
It is also claimed that TikTok tools allow you to block content based on the user's use of certain words. While these policies were primarily applied to users in China, there is a possibility that some of them may have been applied to users outside of China as well.
The document also details the efforts of Oracle, which aspired to become the American technology partner of ByteDance. Oracle offered to segment TikTok data to identify information about users from the United States, segment it, and store it in the United States. However, the US government considered such a proposal insufficient, as it provided for the transfer of a significant amount of user data from the US back to ByteDance and China, and also supported close cooperation between TikTok's US operations and ByteDance management.
The Justice Department noted that even if Oracle had taken on the task of verifying the TikTok source code, which is 2 billion lines long as of 2022, it would have taken at least 3 years. In addition, the source code is constantly updated, which makes the task almost impossible even for such a large player as Oracle.
The document also notes that Oracle could face the need to sort data using untested and experimental tools to determine whether the information was transmitted for legitimate commercial reasons or at the request of the Chinese authorities. The Ministry of Justice claims that neither Oracle nor other technology providers could guarantee the correct execution of the task.
The trial on the charges is scheduled for September 16. Perhaps even more sensational details will emerge during the hearings, as significant parts of the document remain classified.
TikTok reacted to the US actions on social networks, saying that the US Constitution is on the side of the company and the US government is taking unprecedented steps, hiding behind classified information. TikTok representatives expressed confidence in their victory in court.
In early March, a group of congressmen introduced a bill that aims to force the Chinese technology giant ByteDance (owner of TikTok) to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner within 6 months, otherwise the application's activity in the United States will be discontinued.
In response, the Chinese authorities criticized Washington for putting pressure on TikTok. The Chinese government made it clear to ByteDance from Beijing that it would prefer to ban the app in the United States rather than sell its American business. In parallel, it became known that TikTok may be preparing a lawsuit against the United States as part of the fight for the freedom of the application.
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