The damning allegations surfaced even as TikTok scrambles to avoid a total ban in the US.
The Chinese Communist Party “maintained supreme access” to all data held by TikTok parent ByteDance, including information stored in the US, a former top executive at the company alleged in a bombshell lawsuit in California state court.
“The Committee maintained supreme access to all the company data, even data stored in the United States,” alleges the lawsuit, filed Friday. “After receiving criticism about access from abroad, individual engineers in China were restricted from accessing U.S. user data, but the Committee continued to have access.
“These actions were taken without the permission of the content creators and represented an unlawful effort to gain an edge against entrenched online video hosting websites,” the lawsuit said.
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