TikTok’s Chief Defends App During Intense Questions From Lawmakers

TikTok CEO faces off with Congress over security fears

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CEO of TikTok made a rare public appearance Thursday before a U.S. Congressional committee, where he faced a grilling on data security and user safety while he makes his own case for why the hugely popular video-sharing app shouldn’t be banned.

Shou Zi Chew’s testimony comes at a crucial time for the company, which has acquired 150 million American users but is under increasing pressure from U.S. officials. TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have been swept up in a wider geopolitical battle between Beijing and Washington over trade and technology.

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Rep. Anna Eshoo has asked how TikTok could get around Beijing’s security laws that require companies to provide data to the government and makes the reach of the law “extra-territorial”. “This is very clear,” Eshoo said. “Those are the laws of the PRC, how does TikTok convince the congress of the US that there can be a clean break? Why would the Chinese government sidestep their national law…in terms of user data?”

Chew reiterated the plan is to move American data to American soil. Eshoo is not satisfied: “How can you promise the data will move to the US and be protected here?”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2023/mar/23/tiktok-ceo-hearing-ban-congress-live-updates
 
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Rep. Anna Eshoo has asked how TikTok could get around Beijing’s security laws that require companies to provide data to the government and makes the reach of the law “extra-territorial”. “This is very clear,” Eshoo said. “Those are the laws of the PRC, how does TikTok convince the congress of the US that there can be a clean break? Why would the Chinese government sidestep their national law…in terms of user data?”

Chew reiterated the plan is to move American data to American soil. Eshoo is not satisfied: “How can you promise the data will move to the US and be protected here?”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/live/2023/mar/23/tiktok-ceo-hearing-ban-congress-live-updates
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Congress should pass a law requiring the protection of all data and to protect children.
 
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