ByteDance has restricted the access of its employees in China to the computer code and data of its overseas products, including TikTok, according to PingWest. The move comes as ByteDance tries to assuage U.S. regulators’ concerns over how ByteDance handles Americans’ user data from TikTok and tries to separate its China business from its non-China operations. Earlier this year, ByteDance named...
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