HONG KONG: A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong. Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for Byt
HONG KONG: A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.
The credential acted as a “backdoor to any barrier ByteDance had supposedly installed to protect data from the CCP’s surveillance”, the filing says. “We plan to vigorously oppose what we believe are baseless claims and allegations in this complaint,” ByteDance said.Charles Jung, Yu’s lawyer and a partner at the law firm Nassiri & Jung, said Yu chose to raise the allegations because he was “disturbed to hear the recent Congressional testimony of TikTok’s CEO” when Chew Shou Zi, a Singaporean, vehemently denied Chinese authorities had access to user data.
They also contend that the app, which has more than 150 million monthly active users in the US and more than a billion users worldwide, could be used to expand China’s influence.
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