Overseas Chinese companies have collected data on millions of Americans, which can be used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
A recent lawsuit against TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has revealed that the highest authority over using this data rests with the CCP, allowing the Party to use this data as a weapon of unrestricted warfare to shape American elections and politics.
In a lawsuit filed this month in California state court, Roger Yintao Yu, a former executive at ByteDance, who was fired in 2018, said the CCP “maintained supreme access” to all data held by ByteDance, including information stored in the United States, according to the complaint….