ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of short-form video platform TikTok, allegedly gave Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials a “superuser” credential that allowed them unfettered access to user data, which they are said to have used to monitor activists and protesters in Hong Kong, according to a court filing submitted Monday by a former executive at the company.

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