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.

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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.

The swift passage of the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” by the House of Representatives on March 13 has again drawn attention to TikTok’s impact on the ...

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TikTok recently received international attention as its CEO was questioned on Capitol Hill. A U.S. Congress member pointed out that TikTok retains the censorship code for Douyin, the Chinese version ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The battle between the U.S. government and China's ByteDance over the ...