TikTok, in a step to address concerns over the security and privacy of its social-video platform, hired cybersecurity veteran Roland Cloutier as chief information security officer.
Cloutier, who reports to company head Alex Zhu, was previously chief security officer at payroll-services firm ADP. His hiring comes after TikTok, which is owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, has come under scrutiny in the U.S.
in recent months over potential security and data-privacy issues and concerns over its ties to the Chinese government. In January, several security flaws were reported in TikTok’s app by researchers at Check Point Software Technologies that could have let hackers take over users’ accounts, access private videos and steal personal
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