Chinese court case against ByteDance’s ‘god’

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Chinese court case against ByteDance’s ‘god’

In the file, Yu claimed, members of a CCP committee had access to a superuser credential, also known as god user, which allowed them to view all data collected by ByteDance.

This was common knowledge among senior executives, Yu said, who for around a year from August 2017 was a head of engineering in the US for ByteDance.

The filing also alleged that the CCP committee members used their god credential to identify and locate Hong Kong protesters, civil rights activists, and supporters of the protests in 2014 - the so-called Umbrella movement - where people sought the right to elect their own leader. The demonstrations were smaller among civil rights activists, ranging from demonstrations to demonstrations. Many of this visible dissent has disappeared since Beijing has cracked down with a draconian national security law after the anti-govt protests of 2019.

A ByteDance spokeswoman slammed the allegations, saying: We plan to vigorously oppose what we believe is baseless claims and allegations in this complaint. Yu was employed for less than a year and in that time worked on a now-discontinued app called Flipagram.

It's curious that Mr Yu has never raised these allegations in the past five years since his employment for Flipagram was terminated in July 2018. His actions are clearly intended to garner media attention, the ByteDance spokeswoman said.

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