TikTok Privacy Policy

Based on a demonstrated need to do their job, subject to a series of robust security controls and approval protocols, and by way of methods that are recognised under the GDPR, we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the U.S. remote access to TikTok European user data," the company said.

TikTok Further Said its security controls consist of system access restrictions, encryption, and network security, adding it doesn't collect precise location information from its users in Europe.

In July 2022, it hit the brakes on a controversial privacy policy update in Europe that could have allowed it to serve targeted ads based on users' activity on the social video platform without their explicit consent.

It has also faced rough weather in the U.S., what with Brendan Carr, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), calling for a ban of the application over national security concerns that user data could be accessed by Chinese authorities.

Last month, the company contested a report from Forbes that a China-based team at ByteDance planned to use the platform to track the locations of select U.S. citizens without their knowledge or permission.

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