Despite concerns by U.S. policymakers over the security of TikTok users’ data, Chinese law allows for redress for individual’s whose privacy has been violated, New York University U.S.-Asia Law Institute Research Scholar Chi Yin and Nankai University School of Law associate professor Tonghui Zhu write in the South China Morning Post. The authors pointed to two instances where TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance "inappropriately" obtained data belonging to journalists. According to the authors, the journalists had grounds to bring lawsuits to hold ByteDance liable under the Personal Information Protection Law.