“TikTok is spying on you,” announce the ads, and links to a poll and Trump campaign mailing list record asking if TikTok should be banned in the United States.
TikTok, owned by a Chinese company and popular with young Americans, has become a focal point in the tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Clipboard is where iPhones store data in the text that is copied (part of the copy and paste function). This information could be particularly sensitive since some users copy and paste passwords for different services.
The ads sparked a stinging rebuke from TikTok’s Facebook on Sunday.
“We get electoral rhetoric heating up, so we don’t accept political ads on our platform. What’s more interesting is that Facebook is taking money for a political ad that attacks a competitor just as it is preparing to launch a TikTok impersonator. , “A TikTok spokesperson told CNN
“In this case, we had been working to address the problem of spam and incidents where users sometimes posted the same comments on hundreds of videos. Our technology enabled us to identify users who were copying comments and placing them over and over time in the comment section for different videos. We took this as a sign that the user had an agenda, like promoting to gain followers or controlling other users, “he wrote.
He said that the data collected as part of the antispam program did not leave a user’s device. However, Cloutier said in the blog post that the company would remove the feature.
He said that people should only download the application “if they want their private information to be in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.”
“TikTok is led by an American CEO, with hundreds of key employees and leaders in security, product and public policy here in the United States,” a TikTok spokesman said in a statement following Pompeo’s comments. “We have no higher priority than promoting a secure application experience for our users. We have never provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we if they asked us to.”
It is not the first brush of the Trump campaign with the application.
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