Add Your News TikTok confirms that China-based employees can access US user data, but only through an 'approval process' TikTok's CEO sent a letter to nine Republican senators after a BuzzFeed News report shined a new light on privacy and security concerns. TikTok confirmed that China-based employees of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, have access to US user data under certain circumstances in a letter obtained by The New York Times responding to nine Republican senators' inquiries about the matter."Employees outside the US, including China-based employees, can have access to TikTok US user data subject to a series of robust...