for less than a year and his employment ended in July 2018. During his brief time at the company, he worked on an app called Flipagram, which was discontinued years ago for business reasons.”comes as its TikTok platform is fighting against American policymakers who want to ban it in the U.S. over concerns that the China-founded app makes Americans vulnerable to spying and influence operations from the communist regime.
China’s policies of military-civil fusion compel businesses to cooperate with its government, and U.S. officials fear that arrangement puts Americans’ data in the hands of Chinese officials. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to Congress in March that he was unaware that the Chinese government had ever accessed data on TikTok.
“I have seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data, they have never asked us, we have not provided,” he said at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.promises to complicate TikTok’s efforts to persuade Congress and the Biden administration that it can wall off U.S. data from China’s prying eyes.over his desire to ensure Americans know that Chinese Americans are not controlled by a foreign power.
“Yintao wants to tell his story openly in court because he wants to make clear that being an Asian person has nothing to do with being associated with or controlled by a foreign entity and its practices,” Mr. Jung said.
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