All major internet companies in China, including ByteDance, have CCP branches [1]. CCP would be crazy not to use TikTok data.
1 https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2020/8/5/bytedance-hea...
[edit] added source.
1 https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2020/8/5/bytedance-hea...
[edit] added source.
Bytedance has TaoTiao inside China, which shares TaoTaio user information with the CCP, the same way that Apple has Apple Guizhou, which shares iCloud data with the CCP.
Neither Bytedance, or it's TikTok subsidiary, exist inside China, so there's no reason to suspect data sharing with the CCP without evidence.
Please stop spreading FUD.
> The spokesman says Mayer will continue to live in Los Angeles, but will "travel frequently to Bytedance’s headquarters in Beijing, as well as TikTok’s major offices in New York, London, Japan and India." There's no mention of any trips to the Cayman Islands, though.
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/tiktok-weirdly-tries-to-sug...