According to TikTok insiders, Trump might have been right about the Chinese company

Less than a month after we learned about a creepy privacy change that the parent company of the TikTok app implemented for the popular service -- raising concerns immediately among people who've long suspected the app of having a too-close relationship with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance -- some TikTok insiders have now stepped forward to share more ominous concerns. Of the sort, mind you, that were also at the core of the pressure campaign which President Trump and officials in his administration mounted against the service, in an attempt to either cleave off TikTok's US presence and put it under the control of an American company, or to boot it out of the US entirely.

The insiders include a former TikTok recruiter as well as four former employees, all of whom seem to have told CNBC that what the Trump administration was alarmed about -- well, that the previous administration's concerns don't seem to be too far from the truth. To wit, these insiders told CNBC that the company "has access to American user data and is actively involved in the Los Angeles company’s decision-making and product development." And here's the even more interesting part: The Biden administration appears to be picking right up where Trump officials left off, even if they're not going so far as to wage a scorched-earth campaign against TikTok. Yet.