Communist party accessed TikTok data of Hong Kong protesters, former executive alleges

China’s ruling party accessed activists’ data including network information, Sim card ID and IP addresses, legal filing claimsA former executive at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has alleged that the Chinese Communist party accessed user data from the social video app belonging to Hong Kong protesters and civil rights activists.Yintao Yu, a former head of engineering at ByteDance’s US operation, claimed in a legal filing that a committee of Communist party members ac