- ByteDance allowed a Chinese Communist Party unit to censor content and access data, a new lawsuit alleges.
- The unit, referred to as the “Committee,” even had a “death switch” to turn off certain apps.
- ByteDance built a “backdoor channel” to enable CCP access to US user data, the suit alleges.
I hope this app gets picked apart and investigated thoroughly. If the claims in the lawsuit are true, then it will have confirmed what probably a lot of privacy-minded people have long been suspecting. xpost from privacy@lemmy.ml
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They installed it.
I tell people in my family that there is spyware on their phones. They don’t really care or shrug it off.
I mean, there’s the water, drink!
nah
I don’t get it.
First reported by the NYT, former engineering lead at ByteDance Yintao Yu is suing the company for wrongful termination in November 2019, alleging he was fired for raising concerns on a worldwide scheme to steal and profit from other companies’ IP.