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Ex-ByteDance Executive Claims Company Shared Data on U.S. Users With Chinese Government

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The wrongful termination suit from ByteDance's former chief of engineering against ByteDance, which owns TikTok, reinforces accusations from lawmakers that the app poses a national security risk.

, has come forward with accusations that the company provided backdoor access to data on U.S. users and boosted, demoted and removed certain content at the direction of the Chinese government.

A wrongful termination suit filed by Yintao Yu, who was head of engineering for the company’s U.S. offices five years ago, alleges that Chinese government maintained a special unit within ByteDance referred to as the “Committee” that “guided how the company advanced core Communist values,” according to an amended complaint filed on Friday in San Francisco Superior Court.

 

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