An explosive new lawsuit claims TikTok's owner built a 'backdoor' that allowed the CCP to access US user data
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesByteDance allowed a Chinese Communist Party unit to censor content and access data, a new lawsuit alleges.ByteDance built a"backdoor channel" to enable CCP access to US user data, the suit alleges.
Yu was terminated from ByteDance in November 2018, shortly after TikTok was merged with the lip-syncing app Musical.ly. TikTok had onlyin January of that year versus the more than 150 million users the company said it has today. Specifically, the suit says Yu"saw the backdoor channel in the code, which allows certain high level persons to access user data, no matter where the data is located, even if hosted by a U.S. company with servers located in the U.S. Chinese law requires the company to grant access to user data to the Chinese government."
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