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Chinese Communist party accessed TikTok data of Hong Kong protesters, former executive alleges (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Yintao Yu, a former executive at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in the US, claimed in a legal filing that a committee of Communist party members accessed TikTok data that included the users’ network information, Sim card identifications and IP addresses in a bid to identify the individuals and their locations. Yu also alleged in the filing that Beijing-based ByteDance maintained a “backdoor channel” for the party to access US user data.

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[–] alehel@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is a VPN going to help at all when the app sends their simID?

[–] QuestioningEspecialy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Don't know, but additional precautions can be taken. i.e.: temporarily disable the app