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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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[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Based if true.

[–] DevCat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So, a foreign government was/is doing what corporations and facebook have been doing on facebook for years.

There'a reason I haven't been on fb for a long time now.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

So long as you can bring people you know with you to other platforms it's great! Alas, though I haven't posted anything on FB for about a decade, I am still tethered through Messenger with people I know.

[–] 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.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago
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