• 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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    1 year ago

    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.