A deconstruction of the TikTok source code reveals that phones running the short video app are communicating with Chinese servers despite promises that user data is being stored only outside China, a report released by an Australian cybersecurity company shows. Internet 2.0 published a technical analysis of the TikTok application on both android and iOS devices, which breaks down what data the company has access to on users’ phones. It observed the Apple version of the application connecting to a server run by Chinese security company Guizhou BaishanCloud Technology Co Ltd, located in mainland China. “We could not determine with…