Despite repeated assurances that tiktoks The parent company, China-based ByteDance, does not verify data collected about US users, it appears the company did. Corresponding Recordings verified by BuzzFeed News over a dozen separate testimonies from nine different TikTok employees showed engineers in China had access to US data from at least September 2021 to January 2022. A member of TikTok’s trust and security department said in September 2021 that…