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Weird comment. What are you deflecting from? It’s a very clear article.

>In the documents submitted to the court he said ByteDance had a "superuser" credential — also known as a god credential — that enabled a special committee of Chinese Communist Party members stationed at the company to view all data collected by ByteDance including those of U.S. users.

>The credential acted as a "backdoor to any barrier ByteDance had supposedly installed to protect data from the C.C.P's surveillance," the filing says.

>Yu said he saw the god credential being used to keep tabs on Hong Kong protesters and civil rights activists by monitoring their locations and devices, their network information, SIM card identifications, IP addresses and communications.



I just thought the title was weird, my skimming was not super effective :P




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