WASHINGTON – The White House endorsed a bipartisan bill that could give the president authority to ban or force a sale of TikTok, support that could hasten passage and break a deadlock over how to address privacy concerns around the popular Chinese-owned app. Read more at straitstimes.com.
, support that could hasten passage and break a deadlock over how to address privacy concerns around the popular Chinese-owned app.
This is the first time the Biden administration has weighed in on legislation to deal with the app, which the White House says pose national security risks. Critics of TikTok say it allows the Chinese government access to data and viewing trends of the roughly 100 million Americans – as well as users globally – who have made it one of the world’s most popular apps.former President Donald Trump’s push to ban TikTok and Tencent’s WeChat messaging app.
It was unclear how the Bill introduced by Mr Warner and Mr John Thune, the Senate’s No 2 Republican, might affect a separate national-security review of TikTok. That review, led by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, or CFIUS, was meant to come to an agreement addressing concerns surrounding US user data. But that process appears to have stalled.
The backlash has had TikTok waging an all-out charm offensive globally for months. To drum up goodwill and defend its data protection and content moderation policies in Washington, executives have enlisted lobbyists to engage with more than 100 congressional offices. In the second quarter of last year, TikTok spent US$2.1 million on lobbying on issues including children’s privacy, content moderation and antitrust – the most to date.
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