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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>TikTok has denied a report that a China-based team at its parent company ByteDance planned to use the app to track the locations of US citizens. The social media giant said on Twitter that it has never been used to \u201ctarget\u201d the American government, activists, public figures or journalists.<\/p>\n

The firm also says it does not collect precise location data from US users. It was responding to a report in Forbes that data would have been accessed without users\u2019 knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n

The US business magazine, which cited documents it had seen, reported that ByteDance had started a monitoring project to investigate misconduct by current and former employees.<\/p>\n

It said the project, which was run by a Beijing-based team, had planned to collect location data from a US citizen on at least two occasions. The report said it was unclear whether American citizens\u2019 data was ever collected but there had been a plan to obtain location data from US users\u2019 devices.<\/p>\n

In a series of tweets TikTok\u2019s communications team said the report lacked \u201cboth rigor and journalistic integrity\u201d. It added that \u201cForbes chose not to include the portion of our statement that disproved the feasibility of its core allegation: TikTok does not collect precise GPS location information from US users, meaning TikTok could not monitor US users in the way the article suggested.<\/p>\n

\u201d In response to a BBC request for comment a Forbes spokesperson said: \u201cWe are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting. \u201d Privacy concerns The developers of apps have come under scrutiny from authorities around the world, especially over the data of military and intelligence personnel.<\/p>\n

In 2020, a US national security panel ordered ByteDance to sell TikTok\u2019s American business over concerns that users\u2019 data could be passed to the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

TikTok said it migrated US users\u2019 information to servers at Austin-headquartered Oracle this June, to address some regulatory issues. Meanwhile, TikTok is facing a \u00a327m ($30m) fine in the UK, for failing to protect the privacy of children using the platform.<\/p>\n

Last month, the UK\u2019s Information Commissioner\u2019s Office found that the video-sharing platform may have processed the data of under-13s without appropriate consent.<\/p>\n

The watchdog said the breach took place over more than two years \u2013 until July 2020 \u2013 but that it had not yet drawn final conclusions. Tiktok has disputed the findings and said they were \u201cprovisional\u201d.<\/p>\n

TikTok is the world\u2019s fastest-growing social media app and has been downloaded more than 3.9 billion times. It has made more than $6.2bn (\u00a35.5bn) in gross revenue from in-app spending since its launch in 2017, according to analytics company Sensor Tower.<\/p>\n

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