According to him, Chinese authorities at least once used this tool to identify users who participated in democratic protests in Hong Kong.
The author of these statements is Yuintao “Roger” Yu, a former chief engineer of ByteDance in the United States. He noted that the data of users in the United States and around the world “has become available to the Communist Party of China.” <...> “through the backdoor” in the underlying application code.
According to him, there is a close cooperation between government officials and ByteDance.
Yu reportedly worked for the company from August 2017 to November 2018. In the statement, he also mentioned the “culture of lawlessness” within the company. According to him, ByteDance had a “worldwide plan” to systematically collect user content from other sites and host it in ByteDance applications.
Source: Ferra
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