Ex-TikTok employees claim they were ordered to routinely send American user data to Beijing
by Daily Mail
Daily Mail— Under scrutiny, TikTok officials strongly maintained it mostly cut ties with owner. Former employees now say the company was not in fact independent of Beijing. The former TikTok staff said they were asked to send US user data to ByteDance. READ MORE:
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