EXCLUSIVE: Senate Intelligence Committee Calls On FTC To Investigate TikTok For ‘Deception’
China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, repeatedly accessed sensitive U.S. user data “in contravention of several public representations," the committee said.
The letter, signed by committee chairman Senator Mark Warner and vice chairman Senator Marco Rubio, cites “repeated misrepresentations by TikTok concerning its data security, data processing, and corporate governance practices.” that China-based employees of ByteDance regularly accessed sensitive U.S. user data into early 2022, according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal meetings concerning TikTok’s efforts to reduce the flow of data from the U.S.
The letter also highlights BuzzFeed News’ reporting that TikTok employees who work with sensitive U.S. user data continue to report to ByteDance executives in Beijing, despite TikTok’s recent claims to the Senate Intelligence Committee that “all corporate governance decisions are wholly firewalled from their PRC-based parent, ByteDance.
In 2020, concerns that the Chinese government could use TikTok’s vast collection of data to surveil U.S. citizens prompted then-President Donald Trump to threaten to ban the app unless it was sold to a U.S. company. The ban never happened, but TikTok instead began working with CFIUS and Oracle to restrict access to some sensitive data about U.S. users from ByteDance employees in China, an effort calledWhile TikTok and ByteDance publicly downplayed their relationship and emphasized that U.S.
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