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by Tarean 1205 days ago
TikTok did use ip tracking of reporters working on a story to try to find whistleblowers. According to TikTok that was a misguided employee who was let go shortly after.

Though they are hardly alone in the 'misguided employees' department. Ebay had a whole scheme where they flew out a security team to harass and stalk a couple that had criticized ebay in a blog post. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126078948/live-spiders-and-c...

I think Facebook and Uber had their own location tracking scandals as well.