Former ByteDance Executive Alleges CCP Access to US Data and Unlawful Activity.
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Former head of engineering at ByteDance, Yintao "Roger" Yu, has filed a complaint in San Francisco state court alleging that the Chinese tech company engaged in a "worldwide scheme to steal and profit from the content of others" without seeking permission. Yu claims he was dismissed after raising concerns to management that ByteDance was taking user content from other platforms, mainly Instagram and Snapchat. He is seeking a court order to prohibit ByteDance from scraping content from other social media platforms.
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