The complaint says ByteDance had a "backdoor channel in the code" that would allow access to US user data, regardless of where it was hosted.

Social media giant TikTok is aggressively lobbying in Washington ahead of congressional hearings on the company’s ties to China’s communist regime. TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TikTok has worked over the past year to move American users' data to the U.S. amid concerns from U.S. officials that the Chinese ...

On January 19th, the much-debated ban on TikTok, a China-based and CCP-controlled social media platform, officially took effect. This decision by the U.S. government acknowledges TikTok as a national ...

A former ByteDance executive is alleging in a California court filing that a "backdoor channel" in TikTok’s code allows the Chinese Community Party (CCP) access to user data, even if stored by a U.S.

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WASHINGTON—Lawmakers are defending a proposed bill that would effectively force the sale of TikTok to a non-Chinese company as a choice between the United States and China’s ruling communist regime.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When the House of Representatives decided to force the Chinese parent ...