US Justice Dept investigating TikTok’s owner over possible spying on journalists

WASHINGTON – The United States Justice Department is investigating the surveillance of American citizens, including several journalists who cover the tech industry, by the Chinese company that owns TikTok, according to three people familiar with the matter.

TikTok disclosed this week that the Biden administration had asked its owner to sell the app – which is already being blocked from government phones in the US, Europe and more than two dozen states – or face a possible nationwide ban. Two of the employees were based in China. The company said it was making changes to prevent such breaches in the future.

TikTok had been hoping that a group of federal agencies known as the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, would approve of its plans for operating in the country while remaining under the ownership of ByteDance. Officials with TikTok, which has a robust public relations and lobbying operation in Washington, said they were weighing their options and expressed disappointment with the pressure to sell.

straits_times So funny, USA was spying on Merkel without any hesitation.

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