Former ByteDance executive alleges Chinese government used 'God credential' to access user data and track Hong Kong activists
on the filing, that Yu’s allegations are “baseless” and “clearly intended to garner media attention.”Yu, a California resident who was based in ByteDance’s Menlo Park office, was the company’s head of engineering from August 2017 to November 2018, according to his wrongful dismissal lawsuit.
In an addendum to his case filed on Monday, June 5, Yu claimed he saw how the superuser credential—or “god credential”—had been used by ByteDance’s special committee of CCP officials and external investigators to identify and locate Hong Kong protesters and their supporters in 2018, during which a groundswell of anti-mainland Chinese sentiment had been growing amid eroding freedoms in the former British colony.
“From the logs, I saw that the Committee accessed the protestors’, civil rights activists’, and supporters’ unique user data, locations, and communications,” reads the filing.
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