Among a range of other data, intelligence and security legislation, China’s National Intelligence Law of 2017 requires all organisations and citizens to “support, assist and co-operate with the state intelligence work”. Shadow home affairs spokesman James Paterson said the code was more evidence the TikTok app is made and managed in China, giving weight to fears that the Chinese government could interfere with the popular video sharing app used by more than 1 billion people globally. “That matters because it means engineers working on it in China can access user data and are captured by the intelligence and security laws…