TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's defense against allegations that Americans' data is vulnerable to the Chinese Communist Party faced deep bipartisan skepticism at a House hearing Thursday, as questions over the security risk posed by the China-founded app...
’s chairwoman. The Washington Republican favors banning the app in America, and she challenged Mr. Chew’s assertions.
“TikTok has repeatedly chosen the path for more control, more surveillance and more manipulation,” Ms. Rodgers said at the hearing. “Your platform should be banned. I expect today you’ll say anything to avoid this outcome.”Mr. Chew disputed that his app snoops on Americans. “Chair Rodgers, I, first of all, disagree with the characterization that is spying,” he said.
’s policy of civil-military fusion compels businesses to work with the country’s communist regime, and TikTok has a China-founded parent company, ByteDance.has access to TikTok’s data and sparred with Mr. Chew about who may obtain the app’s information.has access to that data, they have never asked us, we have not provided,” Mr. Chew said at the hearing.Mr.
“This eliminates the concern that some of you have shared with me that TikTok user data can be subject to Chinese law,” Mr. Chew said. “This goes further, by the way, than what any other company in our industry has done.” Lawmakers were hardly placated. Rep. Frank Pallone, New Jersey Democrat, said he did not believe TikTok’s plan to wall off American data from
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