CRISTINA CRIDDLE is a British award-winning journalist, broadcaster and producer. Having worked extensively at the BBC, she is currently the Financial Times’ tech correspondent, based in San Francisco, where she has broken stories on a number of major tech companies, including China’s influence over TikTok. This story led to the discovery that she had been spied on by TikTok in an attempt to uncover her sources, which they did by hacking the account she ran for her cat, Buffy.