tiktok TikTok users’ private data is routinely accessed by employees in China despite the video app’s promises to store data outside the country, an investigation has found. Staff at ByteDance, the video app’s Chinese owner, are able to see non-public data about users such as their birthdays and phone numbers, according to staff recordings obtained by the news website BuzzFeed. One employee claimed that “everything is seen in China”, adding to concerns that the app’s data could be used by Beijing to gather data on Western citizens. TikTok, best known for short videos that are recommended to users through a…