TikTok gives “supreme access” to CCP, says former ByteDance executive
Earlier this year a spate of organizations and governments decided to ban TikTok on official devices but explanations as to why were not forthcoming. The information now being disclosed in this case suggests that the bans were justified, especially on devices containing sensitive information.
According to Yintao Yu, ByteDance has a unit referred to as the Committee that represents China’s ruling Communist Party. It decides how “core Communist values” are promoted through ByteDance’s apps. The former executive said that this committee has a kill switch that can turn off all the company’s Chinese apps and also has access to all of ByteDance’s customer information, even that of users outside of China.
What may catch the attention of Snapchat and Instagram, in this case, is that they allegedly had their content stolen by TikTok so that it could attract users to its platform. In addition, the company allegedly created fake accounts to drive up user engagement. This could have impacted content creators’ decisions on which platforms to target their content at.
Yintao Yu was raised in China but now lives in San Francisco. As part of this lawsuit, he is demanding that ByteDance reimburse him for lost earnings, punitive damages, and 220,000 ByteDance shares that were not vested when he was dismissed. These shares would be worth tens of millions of dollars but it’s not clear how much the damages would amount to.
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RuntsPosted:
Tik tok should have just stayed ban from the US at least. Rots kids minds and sadly some how even some adults
Mario350Posted:
thats not a surprise considering tiktok has spyware built into the app,
and they are forced to give every bit of info to the ccp because thats how they operate in china iirc.
if youre not xi xing ping approved then youre not allowed to make games and or apps, you have to be approved by the government there, and must give them every bit of info about every user using said app/game.
and they are forced to give every bit of info to the ccp because thats how they operate in china iirc.
if youre not xi xing ping approved then youre not allowed to make games and or apps, you have to be approved by the government there, and must give them every bit of info about every user using said app/game.
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