Deal to secure TikTok’s future in the US has finally closed
Digest more
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
The update came days after ByteDance, TikTok's Beijing-based parent company, spun out a new US TikTok entity as part of a federal agreement designed to ease
TikTok released some information about the deal Thursday night, but it remains unclear if it complies with a 2024 law.
The changes came after the app’s Chinese parent company spun out an American entity to run TikTok in the United States.