But according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about US TikTok users [1]

It is irrelevant if the data is stored in the US if Chinese government have tools they can use to search for dissidents, journalists etc

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...