TikTok Exec Confirms Chinese Parent Company Has Access to User Data, Mum on CCP’s Law Requiring Cooperation

Article 7 of Beijing’s National Intelligence Law obligates Chinese citizens, organizations, and institutions to support the CCP in intelligence work.

The TikTok app is displayed on an Apple iPhone in a file photo. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A TikTok senior executive confirmed that the video sharing app’s Chinese parent company has access to user data, but did not confirm whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can also access this data under its National Intelligence Law.

David Lieber, head of TikTok’s privacy public policy for the Americas, was asked by NDP MP Matthew Green at a House of Commons Ethics Committee on Oct. 18 whether TikTok has “a parent company in China that has access to user data.”