A former head of engineering at Bytedance in the United States has said the company discharged him after he voiced concern to management that it was taking user content from other platforms, mainly Instagram and Snapchat.The dispute comes at a time when ByteDance-owned app TikTok faces growing calls for a
A former head of engineering at Bytedance in the United States has said the company discharged him after he voiced concern to management that it was taking user content from other platforms, mainly Instagram and Snapchat.
Yintao"Roger" Yu said in a complaint filed on Friday in San Francisco state court that the Chinese tech company engaged in a"worldwide scheme to steal and profit from the content of others" without seeking permission. He is seeking a court order that would prohibit ByteDance from scraping content from other social media platforms.
ByteDance also responded to the scraping allegations, saying it acquired data in line with industry practice and its global policy.
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