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TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE

Victor Tangermann

created: Feb. 10, 2026, 5:08 p.m. | updated: Feb. 12, 2026, 12:52 a.m.

Meanwhile, ICE could use the data to build a probabilistic “confidence score” for individuals and declare protesters and legal observers “domestic terrorists.”It’s not an unreasonable fear. “One can easily imagine a scenario where TikTok provides the last missing piece of data — user location and citizenship status — that ICE needs to green-light one of its raids,” The New Republic‘s Logan McMillen wrote. And when we asked directly, TikTok pointedly declined to provide a comment and would neither confirm nor deny that US immigration authorities were accessing data about its users. “Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven’t already,” one user wrote. More on TikTok: TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist

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