- 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.
Hasn’t this been known/suspected for some time?
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.