Former ByteDance exec counters TikTok CEO’s testimony, CCP has ‘backdoor’ access to user data stored in US

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. company.

In a May filing in San Francisco Superior Court, Yintao “Roger” Yu, who was the head of engineering of the U.S. offices of ByteDance, Inc. from August 2017 until he was fired in November 2018, said he was astounded by TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s “misdirection” while testifying before Congress i