A former employee of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has revealed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has access to the company’s data stored in the United States. newspaper reports New York TimesIt refers to a lawsuit filed by a former employee against the company.
Yu Yingtao, former head of engineering at ByteDance, claims he was fired because he was concerned about the organization’s “global plan” to steal intellectual property. According to him, ByteDance’s Beijing offices had a special section of the CCP called the Committee. This division oversaw how the company promoted communist values. The committee also had the power to terminate applications.
Now he is demanding compensation and 220,000 shares from the organization.
“The committee provided centralized access to all company data, including data stored in the United States,” the newspaper said in the lawsuit.
At the same time, the former employee accused the company of copying content from other social platforms and systematically creating a large number of bots. ByteDance, on the other hand, says that Yu Yingtao worked at the company for less than a year and left his position in 2018.
Christina Criddle, formerly Financial Times reporter it happened object of surveillance by the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the social network TikTok.