TikTok says staff in China can access UK and EU user data- PublishedChinese video-sharing platform TikTok has told users that some of its workers in China have access to the data of accounts in the UK and European Union.It has come under scrutiny from authorities around the world, including the UK and US, over concerns data could be passed to the Chinese government.Elaine Fox, the platform's head of privacy for Europe, said in a statement on Wednesday that a global team helped to keep the user experience "consistent, enjoyable and safe".He added that he believed there was not "a world in which you could come up with sufficient protection on the data that you could have sufficient confidence that it's not finding its way back into the hands of the [Chinese Communist Party]."Under scrutinyThe UK Parliament closed down its TikTok account in August after MPs raised concerns about the risk of data being passed to the Chinese government."