Experts Warn UK Not to Trust TikTok’s Pledge to Keep User Data From CCP

Experts Warn UK Not to Trust TikTok’s Pledge to Keep User Data From CCP
The TikTok logo on a smartphone in Tokyo, on Sept. 28, 2020. Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo
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A TikTok executive recently told the UK Parliament that while users’ personal data collected by the app can be remotely accessed in China, the company would never provide the data to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

However, it appears the reassurance has done little to ease the concerns around the social media giant and its Beijing-based, Cayman Islands-incorporated parent company ByteDance.