A former ByteDance employee who previously came forward with allegations that CCP officials could access TikTok user data has officially filed his claims in court.

Yintao Yu, a former employee with TikTok owner ByteDance has sworn under penalty of perjury his account of events within the company. While Yu had openly claimed these actions were occurring at the company, in his recent filing he gives more specific details, including that TikTok data was used to identify Hong Kong protestors.

“The Committee and external investigators used the god credential to identify and locate the Hong Kong protestors, civil rights activists, and supporters of the protests…

From the logs, I saw that the Committee accessed the protestors’, civil rights activists’, and supporters’ unique user data, locations, and communications.”

TikTok is currently the subject of controversy wherein the United States government is still making a decision on whether to force ByteDance to divest from it’s US operation. Some states have already taken measures to ban the app on state-owned devices, if not banning the app in the state directly.