Business Insider
May 12, 2023, 11:02 PM UTC
An explosive new lawsuit claims TikTok owner ByteDance built a “backdoor channel” in its code that allowed Chinese Communist Party members access to user data hosted in the US.
The wrongful termination suit, which was filed on Friday in San Francisco Superior Court by Yintao Yu, alleges ByteDance granted special powers to members of a unit of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, inside the company, referred to as the “Committee.” Yu is a former engineering lead for ByteDance in the US who worked at the company between 2017 and 2018.