ByEmily Baker-White,

Forbes Staff.

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arlier this year, TikTok quietly changed its policies about when and how it would share data with governments.

As the company negotiated terms with the Trump Administration that would allow its app to continue operating in the U.S., it added language to its policies that covered data sharing not just with law enforcement, but also with “regulatory authorities, where relevant,” and weakened promises to inform users about government requests for their private data.