The popular video sharing app’s potential dangers united congressional Republicans and Democrats in rare bipartisan cooperation as indignant members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee barraged TikTok Inc. CEO Shou Chew on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Does TikTok social media app provide the Chinese Communist Party with information on its 150 million users in the United States? Does it serve as a platform for child sexual exploitation and encourage children to engage in deadly behavior? How does it protect user privacy?
“This company is a picture perfect example of why this committee and Congress needs to take action to amend section 230,” said Latta. Chew told the committee his company relies on a global workforce, including engineers in China, but is working to transition all its data storage to the United States from servers in Virginia and Singapore. When the transition it calls “Project Texas” is complete, Chew said TikTok’s data will be protected from unauthorized foreign access by being stored “on American soil by an American company overseen by American personnel.
“You expect us to believe that you are capable of maintaining the data security, privacy and security of 150 million Americans when you can’t even protect the people in this room,” said Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack, who said the threatening video was up for more than a month before the hearing.
Chew told him TikTok removes any dangerous content it spots. He said the algorithm promotes educational content, and users have told him they are reading more books because of material they’ve discovered on the platform. Chew repeatedly said he felt that his company’s efforts to store data in the United States and be overseen by U.S. personnel would provide adequate safeguards and firewalling. He discounted the Chinese ownership of its parent company, and pointed out the, in which data improperly obtained from Facebook was used to build voter profiles, show that U.S. companies don’t have good data security records.
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