Alexandra S. Levine
@alexlevine.bsky.social
Tech reporter at Forbes covering social media; past Politico + NYT
A TikTok spox said “we remain confident in the accuracy of Shou’s testimony.”
TT and ByteDance didn’t answer Qs about whether Americans’ sensitive financial info is/has been stored in China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
TT and ByteDance didn’t answer Qs about whether Americans’ sensitive financial info is/has been stored in China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.
www.forbes.com
May 30, 2023 at 5:54 PM
A TikTok spox said “we remain confident in the accuracy of Shou’s testimony.”
TT and ByteDance didn’t answer Qs about whether Americans’ sensitive financial info is/has been stored in China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
TT and ByteDance didn’t answer Qs about whether Americans’ sensitive financial info is/has been stored in China. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
TikTok has been touting plans to cordon off EU user data from China in Project Clover.
Storing EU creators’ sensitive financial info in China, past or present, could be a problem under GDPR:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
Storing EU creators’ sensitive financial info in China, past or present, could be a problem under GDPR:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.
www.forbes.com
May 30, 2023 at 5:51 PM
TikTok has been touting plans to cordon off EU user data from China in Project Clover.
Storing EU creators’ sensitive financial info in China, past or present, could be a problem under GDPR:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
Storing EU creators’ sensitive financial info in China, past or present, could be a problem under GDPR:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
US and EU users in TikTok’s Creator Fund have given the company SSNs and tax IDs so they can get paid.
Internal docs show that info has been stored in China + accessible by employees there: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
Internal docs show that info has been stored in China + accessible by employees there: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
TikTok Creators’ Financial Info, Social Security Numbers Have Been Stored In China
TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial data of its biggest stars — those in its "Creator Fund" — on servers in China.
www.forbes.com
May 30, 2023 at 5:36 PM
US and EU users in TikTok’s Creator Fund have given the company SSNs and tax IDs so they can get paid.
Internal docs show that info has been stored in China + accessible by employees there: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
Internal docs show that info has been stored in China + accessible by employees there: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tiktok-creators-data-security-china/?sh=666836417048
Docs show ByteDance is tracking convos about the following on its apps:
Chinese power
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet
Uyghurs
US-China
Science + Medicine
Competitors
Western culture
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/05/tiktok-bytedance-sensitive-words-suppression-china/?sh=57d0852f69c9
Chinese power
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet
Uyghurs
US-China
Science + Medicine
Competitors
Western culture
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/05/tiktok-bytedance-sensitive-words-suppression-china/?sh=57d0852f69c9
The Words TikTok Parent ByteDance May Be Watching You Say
A trove of internal ByteDance documents reveals how TikTok's parent company tracks “sensitive words” mentioned on its social media apps, with the potential to shape high stakes discourse on global politics, culture and society.
www.forbes.com
May 5, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Docs show ByteDance is tracking convos about the following on its apps:
Chinese power
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet
Uyghurs
US-China
Science + Medicine
Competitors
Western culture
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/05/tiktok-bytedance-sensitive-words-suppression-china/?sh=57d0852f69c9
Chinese power
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet
Uyghurs
US-China
Science + Medicine
Competitors
Western culture
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/05/tiktok-bytedance-sensitive-words-suppression-china/?sh=57d0852f69c9
Yes, and we get into this-- the fact that many social media companies (including in U.S.) have tools+policies aimed at filtering out some language and content.
Difference here being that ByteDance lists appear to go well beyond what's standard (like tracking hate speech, child harms, terrorism etc)
Difference here being that ByteDance lists appear to go well beyond what's standard (like tracking hate speech, child harms, terrorism etc)
May 1, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Yes, and we get into this-- the fact that many social media companies (including in U.S.) have tools+policies aimed at filtering out some language and content.
Difference here being that ByteDance lists appear to go well beyond what's standard (like tracking hate speech, child harms, terrorism etc)
Difference here being that ByteDance lists appear to go well beyond what's standard (like tracking hate speech, child harms, terrorism etc)
I visited the Transparency Center in LA!
Can say with certainty that these issues did not come up there and that it's a stretch to say the center allows visitors to audit the app's source code.
What we saw hardly scratched the surface, and notably missing was any info about ByteDance.
Can say with certainty that these issues did not come up there and that it's a stretch to say the center allows visitors to audit the app's source code.
What we saw hardly scratched the surface, and notably missing was any info about ByteDance.
May 1, 2023 at 4:24 PM
I visited the Transparency Center in LA!
Can say with certainty that these issues did not come up there and that it's a stretch to say the center allows visitors to audit the app's source code.
What we saw hardly scratched the surface, and notably missing was any info about ByteDance.
Can say with certainty that these issues did not come up there and that it's a stretch to say the center allows visitors to audit the app's source code.
What we saw hardly scratched the surface, and notably missing was any info about ByteDance.
ByteDance's moderation word lists seem to go far beyond what's standard for social media companies.
Read our investigation here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/01/tiktok-bytedance-suppression-tool-trump-china-uyghurs/?sh=5a2c74b1434c
Read our investigation here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/01/tiktok-bytedance-suppression-tool-trump-china-uyghurs/?sh=5a2c74b1434c
www.forbes.com
May 1, 2023 at 2:16 PM
ByteDance's moderation word lists seem to go far beyond what's standard for social media companies.
Read our investigation here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/01/tiktok-bytedance-suppression-tool-trump-china-uyghurs/?sh=5a2c74b1434c
Read our investigation here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/01/tiktok-bytedance-suppression-tool-trump-china-uyghurs/?sh=5a2c74b1434c