Two senior GOP House lawmakers are probing popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok over concerns that its non-public user data could be accessed by its China-based parent company ByteDance, which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“TikTok has gone on record numerous times claiming that they do not share Americans’ user data with the Chinese government, CCP, or any Chinese state-owned entities. We now know that is not the case,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, wrote on Twitter on July 14, announcing the probe.
The investigation is being carried out jointly with Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking….
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