U. S. Congress will interrogate CEO of Tik Tok
2023.01.30 10:49
U. S. Congress will interrogate CEO of Tik Tok
By Ray Johnson
Budrigannews.com – As lawmakers examine the video-sharing app owned by China, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will appear before the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee in March.
According to a statement released on Monday, the Republican chair of the committee, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Chew will testify before the committee on March 23, marking his first appearance before a congressional committee.
The news comes as the House Foreign Affairs Committee prepares to vote next month on a bill to prevent TikTok from being used in the United States due to concerns about national security.
McMorris Rodgers stated, “ByteDance-owned TikTok has knowingly allowed the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access American user data,” adding that Americans ought to be informed of the consequences for their privacy and data security.
Monday, TikTok announced that Chew would testify.
TikTok stated on Friday:
“Calls for TikTok’s total ban take a piecemeal approach to national security and a piecemeal approach to broad industry issues like data security, privacy, and online harms.”
McMorris Rodgers and other Republican legislators have asked TikTok for more information. The statement stated that they want additional information regarding the potential sexual exploitation of minors on the platform and they want to know how it affects young people in light of concerns about harmful content.
TikTok, which has more than 100 million U.S. users, has been attempting to reassure Washington for the past three years that the Chinese Communist Party or anyone else influenced by Beijing cannot access the personal data of U.S. citizens or alter its content.
ByteDance was ordered to divest TikTok in 2020 by the powerful Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) of the U.S. government due to concerns that China’s government could obtain user data from the United States.
For more than two years, CFIUS and TikTok have been negotiating a national security agreement to safeguard TikTok users’ personal information.
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