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A | Washington, Oct 21 (UNI) TikTok has denied a report that a China-based team at its parent company ByteDance planned to use the app to track the locations of US citizens.

The social media giant said on Twitter that it has never been used to "target" the American government, activists, public figures or journalists, a BBC report said.

The firm also says it does not collect precise location data from US users. It was responding to a report in Forbes that data would have been accessed without users' knowledge or consent.

The US business magazine, which cited documents it had seen, reported that ByteDance had started a monitoring project to investigate misconduct by current and former employees.

It said the project, which was run by a Beijing-based team, had planned to collect location data from a US citizen on at least two occasions.

The report said it was unclear whether American citizens' data was ever collected but there had been a plan to obtain location data from US users' devices.

The developers of apps have come under scrutiny from authorities around the world, especially over the data of military and intelligence personnel. TikTok is facing a $30 million fine in the UK, for failing to protect the privacy of children using the platform.

In 2020, a US national security panel ordered ByteDance to sell TikTok's American business over concerns that users' data could be passed to the Chinese government.

TikTok said it migrated US users' information to servers at Austin-headquartered Oracle this June, to address some regulatory issues.

TikTok is the world's fastest-growing social media app and has been downloaded more than 3.9 billion times.

In a series of tweets TikTok's communications team said the Forbes report lacked "both rigor and journalistic integrity".

It added that "Forbes chose not to include the portion of our statement that disproved the feasibility of its core allegation: TikTok does not collect precise GPS location information from US users, meaning TikTok could not monitor US users in the way the article suggested."

In response to a BBC request for comment a Forbes spokesperson said: "We are confident in our sourcing, and we stand by our reporting."

UNI ING。 Singapore, Oct 13 (UNI) Singapore has jailed and fined an OnlyFans creator, in the city-state's first conviction of users of the adults-only platform.

A court on Wednesday fined Titus Low S$3,000 ($2,087) for sharing obscene photos and videos on the site, BBC reported.

He was also sentenced to three weeks prison for accessing his account in breach of a police order.

The case has sparked alarm over the criminal implications for OnlyFans creators in the conservative nation.

In Singapore, it is illegal to transmit obscene materials by electronic means or to take part in or receive profits from a business where such materials are transmitted.

"For sure, this case has set (a) precedent and other users will have to deal with the same risk of being on OnlyFans," Low's lawyer Kirpal Singh told the BBC.

"I think the message is quite clear that authorities are prepared to convict those who transmit explicit material not just on the OnlyFans platform but on the whole spectrum (of online areas)."

Singh said he had been approached by other content creators this year concerned about their own potential criminal liability.

However, experts had earlier suggested that prosecutions against such local content creators appear to only come about if instigated by a third party.

The BBC has reached out to the US-based company which enables users to buy exclusive, often explicit, content from "creators" they subscribe to.

Low was arrested in December 2021 after a woman found one of his explicit videos on her 12-year-old niece's phone and filed a police complaint.

The 22-year-old model had joined the platform only a few months earlier in April, where he had quickly become one of its biggest local stars, the report said.

After the complaint was made, officers confiscated his phone, iPad and changed the details of his OnlyFans account. But Low regained access to his account and continued uploading content as well as starting a second account.

He told the BBC last year he had continued using the site because it was his chief source of income.

Low had faced up to three months jail for sharing explicit pictures, and up to six months for defying the police instruction.

Following his conviction on Wednesday, he posted on Twitter he was "glad this is finally over".

Low, who has over 210,000 followers on social media, is a well-known Singaporean influencer and his case had been highly publicised.

The number of OnlyFans creators in Singapore is unknown but estimated to be in the hundreds.

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