Tik Tok背后的母公司字节跳动本周承认，其少数员工(其中一些在中国)在进行一项调查时，以不恰当的方式访问了美国用户和两名记者的TikTok数据，该调查旨在消除一场致命的泄密事件的源头。
据彭博社报道，Tik Tok首席执行官Shou Chew在发给员工的备忘录中承认了这一越权行为。在此之前，该公司进行了长达数月的内部调查。今年早些时候，《福布斯》调查称，该公司计划使用TikTok应用程序跟踪某些美国用户的位置。字节跳动本周的调查确定，几名员工访问了BuzzFeed News和英国《金融时报》两名记者的ID地址和其他个人数据，以及他们联系过的数量不详的美国用户。据报道，这些泄密猎人试图查看目标用户是否在字节跳动员工附近。这些努力都是徒劳的。
该发言人在发给Gizmodo的电子邮件中说：“某些人不再受雇于字节跳动，他们的不当行为是严重滥用职权，获取用户数据。这种不当行为是不可接受的，不符合我们在TikTok上赢得用户信任的努力。我们非常重视数据安全，我们将继续加强我们的访问协议，自这次事件发生以来，这些协议已经得到了显著的改进和加强。”
据《纽约时报》报道，字节跳动公司表示，它已经解雇了访问美国用户数据的所有四名员工。据报道，其中两名员工在中国，另外两名在美国。调查结束后，字节跳动重组了内部审计团队，并取消了美国商务部对美国数据的访问权限，但高管们担心损害已经造成。
根据《纽约时报》看到的电子邮件，字节跳动首席执行官梁汝波表示：“我们花费巨大努力建立的公众信任将被少数人的不当行为严重破坏。”
大约六个月前，BuzzFeed新闻的一篇报道援引了TikTok会议的泄露音频，据称证实美国用户数据多次被中国访问。该报告称，在2021年9月至2022年1月期间，工程师可以访问美国用户数据5个月。
一位急于限制TikTok访问的美国议员几乎肯定会试图利用最新的越权行为，支持针对该公司的新立法。就在上周，一个由参议员Marco Rubio、众议员Mike Gallagher和Raja Krishnamoorthi等两党议员组成的小组提出了一项新法案，如果该法案获得通过，将有效地禁止抖音在美国运营。具体来说，该法案将呼吁Joe Biden总统阻止美国与抖音和字节跳动的所有交易，这是前总统Donald Trump提出的，因为字节跳动收集美国用户数据的行为构成了国家安全威胁。
原文：
ByteDance, the parent company behind TikTok, admitted this week a handful of its employees, some based in China, inappropriately accessed TikTok data of U.S. users and two journalists when conducting an investigation attempting to snuff out the source of a damning leak.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew reportedly admitted the overreach in a memo sent to employees viewed by Bloomberg.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew reportedly admitted the overreach in a memo sent to employees viewed by Bloomberg. The revelations follow a months-long internal investigation at the company spurred by a Forbes investigation earlier. This year alleging the company planned to use the TikTok app to track certain U.S. users’ locations. ByteDance’s investigation this week determined several employees accessed ID addresses. And other personal data from a pair of BuzzFeed News and Financial Times reporters and an unknown number of U.S. users who they were in contact with. Those leaker hunters were reportedly attempting to see if the targeted users were within the proximity of ByteDance employees. Those efforts came up empty.
“The misconduct of certain individuals. Who are no longer employed at ByteDance, was an egregious misuse of their authority to obtain access to user data.” The spokesperson said in an email to Gizmodo. “This misbehavior is unacceptable, and not in line with our efforts across TikTok to earn the trust of our users. We take data security incredibly seriously. And we will continue to enhance our access protocols, which have already been significantly improved and hardened since this incident took place.
ByteDance, according to The New York Times, says it fired all four of the employees who accessed the U.S. users’ data.
ByteDance, according to The New York Times, says it fired all four of the employees who accessed the U.S. users’ data. Two of those employees were reportedly based in China while the other two were based in the U.S. Following the investigation, ByteDance reportedly restructured its internal audit team. And removed the department’s access to U.S. data but executives fear the damage is already done.
“The public trust that we have spent huge efforts building is going to be significantly undermined by the misconduct of a few individuals.” ByteDance Chief Executive Rubo Liang said according to emails seen by the Times.
The findings come around six months after a BuzzFeed News report. Which cited leaked audio from TikTok meetings that allegedly confirms U.S. user data has repeatedly been accessed from China. That report claimed engineers had access to U.S. user data for five months between September 2021 and January 2022.
U.S., lawmaker chomping at the bit to restrict TikTok’s access will almost surely try to capitalize on the latest overreaches to argue in favor of new legislation taking aim at the company.
U.S., lawmaker chomping at the bit to restrict TikTok’s access will almost surely try to capitalize on the latest overreaches to argue in favor of new legislation taking aim at the company. Just last week, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers including Senator Marco Rubio and representatives Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced a new bill that, if passed, would effectively ban TikTok from operating in the U.S. Specifically, the bill would call on President Joe Biden to block all U.S transactions with TikTok and ByteDance, something former president Donald Trump flirted with, over claims ByteDance’s collection of American user data represents a national security threat.
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文章来源：https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-data-china-bytedance-1849924671
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