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
      3·
      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).

    • DengueDucky@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Fixed:

      I feel like everyone should have assumed this the second it was known this was a Chinese company…

      It’s not as if the US doesn’t have access to data that US social media apps have.