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Emily Baker-White

ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:

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Forbes · EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes JournalistsBy Emily Baker-White
Dec 22, 2022, 08:16 PM·Public·Web
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Andy Bowers

@ebakerwhite Terrible. And also, sadly, not shocking. It seems TikTok isn’t just the name of the app; it’s also the ambient sound I imagine as I wait for that company’s inevitable privacy explosion.

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