ByteDance Accused of Helping China Track Hong Kong Activists (2)

Chinese Communist Party members used a “god credential” at TikTok parent ByteDance Inc. to examine the personal data of civil rights activists and protesters in Hong Kong, and identify and track them down, a former company executive said in a court filing.

Yintao “Roger” Yu, a former head of engineering in the US for ByteDance, described a special committee of the Chinese government installed at the company’s Beijing offices that he said monitored all data on the platform, including that of users in the US, according to the filing.

“This was a backdoor to any barrier ByteDance had supposedly installed ...