SAN FRANCISCO: Leaders of the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday called for an investigation into whether Chinese officials were getting access to the data of US users of the video-snippet sharing sensation. TIC Toc,
in a letter to federal trade commission (FTC) Chair Leena Khan, senators urged him to investigate how well TikTok protects personal data.
“We write in response to public reports that people in the People’s Republic of China are accessing the data of US users in violation of several public representations,” the letter said.
TikTok has consistently defended itself against such allegations, saying it does not provide any data about US users to the Chinese government, despite its parent company, ByteDanceBeing based in China.
A TikTok spokesperson said in response, “We have spoken openly about our work on limiting access to user data across regions, and in our letter to senators last week we look further through our work with Oracle.” Were clear about our progress in limiting access.” For AFP investigation.
“As we have said repeatedly, TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government, and neither will we when asked.”
In response to earlier inquiries from US officials, TikTok indicated in mid-June that all of its data on US-based users was now stored on US-based servers operated by US company Oracle.
TikTok last week answered questions from nine Republican senators about their data storage and access policies.
In that letter, TikTok confirmed claims made in a BuzzFeed article that employees based in China had access to US users’ data, but only through “robust cybersecurity controls and security controls overseen by the company’s US-based security team”. Authorization Approval Protocol”.
TikTok executives also said that ByteDance engineers can work on the platform’s algorithms, but the new protocol ensures they can only do so within Oracle’s computing environment, without extracting data from it.
The popular social media platform is currently being evaluated by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government review board that assesses the risks of foreign investment on US national security.
During his White House tenure, the former President Donald Trump Was concerned about the security of the platform’s data and tried to force ByteDance to sell its subsidiary to Oracle.
He also issued executive orders banning service in the United States outright, but they were never implemented and were later rescinded by his successor, Joe Biden,
President Biden nonetheless tasked his administration with measuring the potential risks associated with foreign ownership of social media websites and apps.
in a letter to federal trade commission (FTC) Chair Leena Khan, senators urged him to investigate how well TikTok protects personal data.
“We write in response to public reports that people in the People’s Republic of China are accessing the data of US users in violation of several public representations,” the letter said.
TikTok has consistently defended itself against such allegations, saying it does not provide any data about US users to the Chinese government, despite its parent company, ByteDanceBeing based in China.
A TikTok spokesperson said in response, “We have spoken openly about our work on limiting access to user data across regions, and in our letter to senators last week we look further through our work with Oracle.” Were clear about our progress in limiting access.” For AFP investigation.
“As we have said repeatedly, TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government, and neither will we when asked.”
In response to earlier inquiries from US officials, TikTok indicated in mid-June that all of its data on US-based users was now stored on US-based servers operated by US company Oracle.
TikTok last week answered questions from nine Republican senators about their data storage and access policies.
In that letter, TikTok confirmed claims made in a BuzzFeed article that employees based in China had access to US users’ data, but only through “robust cybersecurity controls and security controls overseen by the company’s US-based security team”. Authorization Approval Protocol”.
TikTok executives also said that ByteDance engineers can work on the platform’s algorithms, but the new protocol ensures they can only do so within Oracle’s computing environment, without extracting data from it.
The popular social media platform is currently being evaluated by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency government review board that assesses the risks of foreign investment on US national security.
During his White House tenure, the former President Donald Trump Was concerned about the security of the platform’s data and tried to force ByteDance to sell its subsidiary to Oracle.
He also issued executive orders banning service in the United States outright, but they were never implemented and were later rescinded by his successor, Joe Biden,
President Biden nonetheless tasked his administration with measuring the potential risks associated with foreign ownership of social media websites and apps.