Fired ByteDance Exec Says China Exerted ‘Supreme’ Data Control

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"Former ByteDance Exec Claims CCP 'Maintained' Access to US Data"

"A former executive at TikTok parent ByteDance Inc. who was fired in 2018 said in a lawsuit that the Chinese Communist Party had a special office within the company that gave it “supreme access” to all data, a backdoor channel that he said persisted even after US user data was walled off from individual engineers in China.
In a complaint filed Friday in California state court, Yintao “Roger” Yu said he was terminated from his job as head of engineering in the US in retaliation for his complaints to supervisors about “brazenly unlawful conduct” at the company. "

"The Chinese Communist Party "maintained supreme access" to data belonging to TikTok parent company ByteDance, including data stored in the U.S., a former top executive claimed in a lawsuit Friday...

In a wrongful dismissal suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, Yintao Yu said ByteDance "has served as a useful propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party." Yu, whose claim says he served as head of engineering for ByteDance's U.S. offices from August 2017 to November 2018, alleged that inside the Beijing-based company, the CCP "had a special office or unit, which was sometimes referred to as the 'Committee'." The "Committee" didn't work for ByteDance but "played a significant role," in part by "gui[ding] how the company advanced core Communist values," the lawsuit claims... The CCP could also access U.S. user data via a "backdoor channel in the code," the suit states...

In an interview with the New York Times, which first reported the lawsuit, Yu said promoting anti-Japanese sentiment was done without hesitation.
"The allegations come as federal officials weigh the fate of the social media giant in the U.S. amid growing concerns over national security and data privacy," the article adds.

Yu also accused ByteDance of a years-long, worldwide "scheme" of scraping data from Instagram and Snapchat to post on its own services."

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...conduct-got-him-fired?leadSource=uverify wall
 
If true, and I more lean towards this being truth than fiction, it's hard to feign surprise. TickTock should be closed, and a means to limit extranational corporations from being able to gather this much data so easily should be implemented.
The shape of that means should be the total and complete reformation of our education system. Children need to be taught the personal, and societal dangers that go with this sort of thing. In addition to actual history, the constitution, math, language, sciences, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and how to balance a checkbook of course. Instead of what is currently being taught that amounts to little more than societal deconstruction.
 
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Gorankar said:
If true, and I more lean towards this being truth than fiction, it's hard to feign surprise. TickTock should be closed, and a means to limit extranational corporations from being able to gather this much data so easily should be implemented.
The shape of that means should be the total and complete reformation of our education system. Children need to be taught the personal, and societal dangers that go with this sort of thing. In addition to actual history, the constitution, math, language, sciences, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and how to balance a checkbook of course. Instead of what is currently being taught that amounts to little more than societal deconstruction.
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Why do they continue to feign surprise

What’s going on here
 
Gorankar said:
If true, and I more lean towards this being truth than fiction, it's hard to feign surprise. TickTock should be closed, and a means to limit extranational corporations from being able to gather this much data so easily should be implemented.
The shape of that means should be the total and complete reformation of our education system. Children need to be taught the personal, and societal dangers that go with this sort of thing. In addition to actual history, the constitution, math, language, sciences, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, and how to balance a checkbook of course. Instead of what is currently being taught that amounts to little more than societal deconstruction.
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But wont happen, the U.S had no problems with data syphoning when it was Facebook / Instagram doing it... but as soon as someone else does it, end of the world. So we wont see any major sweeping changes to any laws that would actually benefit users with in North American borders.
 
MrGuvernment said:
But wont happen, the U.S had no problems with data syphoning when it was Facebook / Instagram doing it... but as soon as someone else does it, end of the world. So we wont see any major sweeping changes to any laws that would actually benefit users with in North American borders.
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And even if they did they would just spin up an “advertising” company, buy the data legally and then they share it back. The only way to keep the data from China would be to ban the collection and usage of the data which would destroy the business models of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Salesforce, and dozens of other multi billion dollar companies. The lobbyists and donors won’t let that happen.
 
Lakados said:
And even if they did they would just spin up an “advertising” company, buy the data legally and then they share it back. The only way to keep the data from China would be to ban the collection and usage of the data which would destroy the business models of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Salesforce, and dozens of other multi billion dollar companies. The lobbyists and donors won’t let that happen.
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Exactly, they can ban tiktok all they want, but foreign companies are buying up data anyways cause it is sold via other methods just as I am sure American companies are buying up foreign data.
 
MrGuvernment said:
Exactly, they can ban tiktok all they want, but foreign companies are buying up data anyways cause it is sold via other methods just as I am sure American companies are buying up foreign data.
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ISP’s sell data, which contains names, addresses, source, and destination IP’s.
Connect to a VPN well the ISP see you connecting to the VPN now all your traffic is just SSL on 443. What ever you are interacting with online now only sees the source as being an exit node for a VPN but unless you are using a unique disposable email address with a unique disposable payment system there is enough out there to correlate it all back to you anyways or at least enough to narrow you down to a very small bucket.
Online anonymity is a joke with all the data floating around being sold and traded.
 
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Lakados said:
ISP’s sell data, which contains names, addresses, source, and destination IP’s.
Connect to a VPN well the ISP see you connecting to the ISP now all your traffic is just SSL on 443. What ever you are interacting with online now only sees the source as being an exit node for a VPN but unless you are using a unique disposable email address with a unique disposable payment system there is enough out there to correlate it all back to you anyways or at least enough to narrow you down to a very small bucket.
Online anonymity is a joke with all the data floating around being sold and traded.
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Ya, why I hate the fake NordVPN commercials acting like a VPN will save you and protect you from malware.
if you are using a VPN, but keep logging into your Meta accounts, Google accounts and what ever else over it, your not hiding anything...your just associating another IP to your account.
 
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