TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew will appear before the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee in March, as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app.
Chew will testify before the committee on March 23, which will be his first appearance before a congressional committee, said Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Republican chair of the panel, in a statement on Monday. …
“ByteDance-owned TikTok has knowingly allowed the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access American user data,” McMorris Rodgers said, adding that Americans deserve to know how these actions impact their privacy and data security.
[ByteDance has tried to install some firewalls between its operations and Beijing lately — and belatedly — but few believe those are anything more than window dressing. The House Foreign Affairs Committee has a bill that would block TikTok in the US over national security concerns; they may want to take a closer look at WeChat too, owned by Chinese firm Tencent, whose reach goes even farther, especially among the ex-pat community. — Ed]
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