WASHINGTON — TikTok's chief executive will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government amid growing US national security concerns. 'TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, US user data with the Chinese government. Nor would TikTok honour...
A 3D printed Tik Tok logo is seen in front of US flag in this illustration taken on Oct 6, 2020.WASHINGTON — TikTok's chief executive will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government amid growing US national security concerns.
TikTok's critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China's government by the app and prompted growing calls to ban the app by US lawmakers. Last week, TikTok said the Biden administration demanded that its Chinese owners divest their stake in the app or it could face a US ban. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States , a powerful national security body, had unanimously recommended in 2020 that ByteDance divest TikTok.
TikTok has formed a special-purpose subsidiary, TikTok US Data Security , that currently has nearly 1,500 full-time employees and contracted with Oracle to store TikTok’s US user data.code and will have unprecedented access to the related algorithms and data models," Chew's testimony said.Chew said when the process is complete "all protected US data will be under the protection of US law and under the control of the US-led security team.
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