TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before Congress on Thursday as the social media platform looks to avoid a potential ban or divestment from its China-based parent company.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee as the social media platform faces a potential U.S. ban or divestment from its China-based parent company.
The Biden administration is currently implementing the removal of TikTok from government devices as required by a bipartisan law enacted last year. New legislation introduced by Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Mark Warner, D-Va., known as the RESTRICT Act, would give the federal government the ability to investigate and potentially ban problematic technology products like TikTok that have ties to adversarial countries including China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela.
Thune noted the connections between TikTok’s parent company ByteDance and the Chinese government as being deeply troubling: "I’m particularly concerned about TikTok’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party, which repeatedly spies on American citizens. It was reported last year that China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed non-public data about users in the U.S. despite TikTok saying to the contrary.
TikTok is facing a new legislative push from Congress that would allow the federal government to investigate and potentially ban technology products made in adversarial countries like China.. The app not only collects the imagery and objects contained in the short-form videos made by users but also biometric identifiers such as faceprints and voiceprints, activities on other websites or apps – plus the content of messages: when they’re sent, received, read and by whom.
ByteDance is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department and FBI for using the app to surveil U.S. journalists as at least two
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