TikTok has just confirmed that parent company ByteDance in China has had access to sensitive U.S. user data generated by the wildly popular video-sharing app. “Employees outside the U.S., including China-based employees, can have access to TikTok U.S. user data subject to a series of robust cybersecurity controls and authorization approval protocols overseen by our U.S.-based security team,” wrote TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew in a June 30 letter to nine Republican senators. The disclosure makes clear that TikTok executives had previously misled Congress and the American public about the matter. (RELATED: CHANG: China’s Economy Is Collapsing. Here’s Why You...