{"id":140752,"date":"2022-06-18T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/leaked-audio-from-80-internal-tiktok-meetings-shows-that-us-user-data-has-been-repeatedly-accessed-from-china"},"modified":"2022-06-18T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T14:22:17","slug":"leaked-audio-from-80-internal-tiktok-meetings-shows-that-us-user-data-has-been-repeatedly-accessed-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/leaked-audio-from-80-internal-tiktok-meetings-shows-that-us-user-data-has-been-repeatedly-accessed-from-china","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Audio From 80 Internal TikTok Meetings Shows That US User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HnH6HuFU6hI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fourteen of the leaked recordings include conversations with or about a team of consultants from Booz Allen Hamilton. One of the consultants told TikTok employees that they were brought on in February 2021 to help manage the Project Texas data migration, and a TikTok director told other TikTok employees that the consultants reported to TikTok\u2019s chief of US data defense. In recordings, the consultants investigate how data flows through TikTok and ByteDance\u2019s internal tools, including those used for data visualization, content moderation, and monetization.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, one consultant said to colleagues, \u201cI feel like with these tools, there\u2019s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them, which is exhausting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen of the leaked recordings include conversations with or about a team of consultants from Booz Allen Hamilton. One of the consultants told TikTok employees that they were brought on in February 2021 to help manage the Project Texas data migration, and a TikTok director told other TikTok employees that the consultants reported to TikTok\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}