Former TikTok exec: Chinese Communist Party had "God mode" entry to US data

A former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has claimed in court documents that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had access to TikTok data, despite the data being stored in the US. The allegations were made in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit which was filed in May in the San Francisco Superior Court.

The former executive is Yintao “Roger” Yu, who worked as head of engineering for ByteDance. Yu worked for ByteDance between 2017 and 2018. According to his claims, the …

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