A former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has claimed in court documents that the Chinese Community Party (CCP) had access to TikTok data, despite the data being stored in the US.

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.

    • UselesslyBrisk@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah definately a “water is wet” kinda revelation.

      Also, given that I am not Chinese, I dont really see much of a risk for foriegn citizens. I would be more concerned with my own governments spying (and most all of them do in the western world).