Corporate Entity

ByteDance (TikTok)

D Serious concerns
🇨🇳 China · 4 products investigated · 2 structural risks
4
Products
25
Contradictions
11
Critical
25
Sources
Structural risks

These risks apply to every ByteDance (TikTok) product. They are legal obligations and corporate practices that individual products cannot override. A subsidiary cannot opt out of an FTC consent decree. A company cannot selectively ignore its home country's intelligence law for one product. These risks set a grade floor of D — no ByteDance (TikTok) product can score better than this, regardless of its own privacy settings.

critical China National Intelligence Law (Article 7) 2017-06-28
ByteDance is headquartered in Beijing. Under China's National Intelligence Law (2017), all organisations must support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence efforts. This applies regardless of where data is stored (including Project Texas).
critical $368M GDPR + COPPA violations 2019-02-27
TikTok was fined EUR 345 million by the Irish DPC for children's privacy violations (2023) and $5.7 million by the FTC for COPPA violations (2019). ByteDance employees accessed US user data from China despite assurances otherwise.
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Products (4)
F: 1D: 3
F
TikTok (Kids Safety)
Kids & Education · 7 contradictions
Fail
D
TikTok
Social Media · 15 contradictions
Serious concerns
D
CapCutwas C
Photo Video · 2 contradictions
Serious concerns
D
Lemon8was B
Social Media · 1 contradictions
Serious concerns
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