The executive’s claim is part of a May lawsuit against ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company.
A former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance alleged in a court filing that Chinese Communist Party officials accessed data of Hong Kong civil rights activists that used TikTok, according to
—a claim that comes amid growing concerns from lawmakers over potential security threats posed by the app.Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reservedYintao Yu, who led ByteDance’s U.S. engineering team from 2017 to 2018 and was based in the company’s California office, against his former company as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in May, making his latest claim in a court new filing revealed Monday, theThe filing claimed that the Chinese Communist party committee accessed and collected IP addresses, SIM card IDs and communication data of users in Hong Kong in 2018, including political activists and protesters, according to the report.
Yu’s attorney told the paper they decided to file the claim after TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified to Congress earlier this year and denied the app’s role in sharing data with the Chinese government, prompting Yu to want to counter the claims made by Chew.“We vigorously oppose what we believe are baseless claims and allegations in this complaint,” a spokeswoman for ByteDance told
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