A TikTok senior executive confirmed that the social media platform’s Chinese parent company has access to user data, but did not disclose whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can also access this data. David Lieber, head of TikTok’s privacy public policy for the Americas, affirmed this during his testimony before the House of Commons Ethics Committee on Oct. 18. However, he did not provide a direct response when asked about the CCP’s potential access to information through TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance. “Is that Chinese company, your parent company, is it also regulated under Chinese state national law that should the Chinese government want to access their information … that they could do that?” asked NDP MP Matthew Green....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/tiktok-exec-confirms-chinese-parent-company-access-to-user-data-mum-on-ccp-involvment-5512975