Chinese Party has ‘supreme access’ to all TikTok data, claims former employee

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “maintained supreme access” to all TikTok user data, according to claims from a former ByteDance employee. Yintao "Roger" Yu also accuses TikTok’s parent company of spreading China nationalist propaganda, while implementing an unlawful “worldwide scheme” to profit from competitors’ content. The Beijing-based company has strongly rejected all the accusations. ByteDance’s alleged ‘culture of lawlessness’ Yu’s allegations, part of a larger wrongful layoff’s lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of San Francisco In May 2023, emerged as US lawmakers are voting to pass a new law to finally be able to legally enforce a TikTok ban….