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An explosive new lawsuit claims TikTok's owner built a 'backdoor' that allowed the CCP to access US user data (archive.is)

submitted 2 years ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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ByteDance allowed a Chinese Communist Party unit to censor content and access data, a new lawsuit alleges.

The unit, referred to as the "Committee," even had a "death switch" to turn off certain apps.

ByteDance built a "backdoor channel" to enable CCP access to US user data, the suit alleges.

I hope this app gets picked apart and investigated thoroughly. If the claims in the lawsuit are true, then it will have confirmed what probably a lot of privacy minded people have long been suspecting.

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[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hasn't this been known/suspected for some time?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

It's been presumed so. The fact that this is a former internal employee who would purportedly have enough evidence to put forward a suit gives it more legitimacy than conclusions drawn from external app analyses and speculation.