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TikTok's privacy policies for European users were updated recently.
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It now explicitly discloses that employees in China may view personal data collected through the app.
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US policymakers are becoming more vocal about their concerns that the Chinese government might pressure TikTok,
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To give users' personal information under country's national security laws.
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TikTok spent months working with the federal government to negotiate a possible national security deal that would allow it to continue operations in the United States.
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TikTok also moved US user data from US-based servers to the cloud hosted by Oracle.
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However, this has yet to stop criticisms that user data could still have been accessed by China-based people subject to China's security laws.
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TikTok did not promise to stop the practice and reiterated that it would continue with Tuesday's European policy update.
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