TikTok has been secretly collecting American users’ views on abortion, gun control and religion, the Department of Justice has alleged.
The DOJ accused the Chinese-owned social media giant of systematically passing information about its users to Chinese servers “in bulk.”
It leveled the charge in its first response to TikTok taking the government to court in a bid to overturn bipartisan legislation which would force its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The law forces ByteDance to sell TikTok’s American operations due to national security concerns over how the app’s content can be manipulated.
