There was a report that a China-based team at ByteDance planned to use the app to track US citizens.
It has never been used to target the American government, activists, public figures or journalists according to the company.
It doesn't collect precise location data from US users.
Forbes reported that data would have been accessed without users' permission.
According to the US business magazine, ByteDance started a monitoring project to look into the conduct of employees.
The project planned to collect location data from a US citizen at least two times.
There was a plan to get location data from US users' devices, but it was unclear if American citizens' data was collected.
The report lacked both rigor and journalistic integrity, according to the communications team.
The portion of our statement that disproved the feasibility of its core allegation was not included by Forbes.
A Forbes spokesman said they were confident in their reporting and stood by it.
Authorities around the world are scrutinizing the developers of apps over the data of military and intelligence personnel.
A US national security panel ordered ByteDance to sell TikTok's American business due to concerns that users' data could be passed to the Chinese government.
To address some regulatory issues, TikTok migrated US users' information to Oracle's server in Austin.
TikTok is being fined in the UK for failing to protect the privacy of children using the platform.
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office found that the video-sharing platform may have processed the data of under-13s.
It took more than two years, but the watchdog said it had not yet drawn a conclusion.
Tiktok said they wereprovisional.
TikTok is the world's fastest-growing social media app with more than 3 billion downloads.
According to Sensor Tower, it has made more than $6.2 billion from in-app spending since it was launched.
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