TikTok Insiders Reveal Chinese Parent Company Can 'Access U.S. User Data.'

Company insiders have revealed that the Chinese parent company of the app TikTok can covertly access user data, alleging the boundaries between the two companies were "So blurry as to be almost non-existent," in a CNBC report.

A "Recruiter, along with four other former employees, told CNBC they're concerned about the popular social media app's Chinese parent company, which they say has access to American user data and is actively involved in the Los Angeles company's decision-making and product development," the outlet summarized.

One of the anonymous employees alleged that "The boundaries between TikTok and ByteDance were so blurry as to be almost non-existent."

"This was highlighted in a situation where an American employee working on TikTok needed to get a list of global users, including Americans, who searched for or interacted with a specific type of content - that means users who searched for a specific term or hashtag or liked a particular category of videos. This employee had to reach out to a data team in China in order to access that information. The data the employee received included users' specific IDs, and they could pull up whatever information TikTok had about those users. This type of situation was confirmed as a common occurrence by a second employee."

The "Close ties between TikTok and its parent company go far beyond user data," employees reveal before describing how ByteDance controls the "Direction and approvals for all kinds of decision-making, whether it be minor contracts or key strategies."

Former employees said that nearly 100% of TikTok's product development is led by Chinese ByteDance employees.

The National Pulse recently revealed how TikTok hired the very same far-left "Fact checker" used by Facebook to suppress stories about the Chinese Communist Party.

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