Video sharing application Tiktok's parent company's beating an former executive says in a legal document that a committee composed of the Communist Party of China visited Tiktok Hong Kong user data in 2018.The company denied this statement.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the former executive named Yu Yiyin Tao (translated, Yintao Yu) said that during the time of the party committee members, the people and protesters of Hong Kong were concerned about Hong Kong's civil rights activists and protesters who visited TiktokData including their network information, SIM card recognition information and IP addresses, the purpose is to identify and locate these users.He said the relevant data also included the communication information of these users on TIKTOK.
Yu Yintao filed an improper dismissal lawsuit in the San Francisco High Court in early May. The above allegations were part of the new document he submitted in the lawsuit.
From August 2017 to November 2018, Yu Yitao's interted bytes beating the U.S. office and served as engineering director. He was a resident of California, USA.Yu Yitao worked mainly in the office of the byte beating in Monroapak, California, and stayed in the company's office in Los Angeles and Beijing.
The spokesperson beating a spokesman said, "Strongly oppose the claims and allegations we think in this complaint."She said that Yu Yitao's work was a application called Flipagram.Based on commercial reasons, Flipagram stopped operation a few years ago.
The spokesman said that Yu Yitao was fired in 2018, and he did not propose these allegations in the next five years.She said that Yu Yitao's behavior was obviously to attract the attention of the media.
Yu Yitao's lawyer, law firm Nassiri Jung partner Charles Zheng (translated name, Charles Jung) said that Yu Yitao decided to stand up now because he believed that Tiktok CEO Zhou suffered money.The testimony published at the U.S. Congress Hearing is misleading.Zheng said: "My parties tell their stories in court to put themselves in danger. But the truth is strong. To achieve social change, the truth must be told."
Yu Yitao proposed that the background of these allegations is that Tiktok is trying to convince American decision makers to believe that the application is safe for users.American politicians say they are worried that the Chinese government may force Tiktok to provide US user data or preach certain content.Tiktok has set up a new subsidiary to manage its US data, saying that this should eliminate concerns about Tiktok's US user data that may be restrained by Chinese law.
Tiktok executives have repeatedly emphasized that the platform will not share user data with the Chinese government.In the testimony of Congress, Zhou said that he specifically studied American user data and the Chinese government's issues.
Zhou's capital said at the time, "I did not see any evidence that the Chinese government had the authority to obtain the data. They never asked us. We have not provided it."
