The Biden administration has demanded that ByteDance sell TikTok or face a national ban. TikTok has asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to approve its plans to operate in the country while still owned by ByteDance. President Biden, on the other hand, has indicated that he may support a Congressional effort to outlaw TikTok in the United States.
One of the people whose data was allegedly tracked by ByteDance is a Forbes journalist who broke the story about the federal criminal investigation. By accessing their IP addresses and other data, the now-fired ByteDance employees who allegedly harvested the data were reportedly looking for the sources of suspected leaks of internal conversations and business documents to journalists. ByteDance has said it was making changes to prevent such breaches in the future.
