TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told U.S. lawmakers that China-based employees at its parent company ByteDance may still have access to some U.S. data from the app.
, Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, asked Chew if any ByteDance employee in China could currently access U.S. data.
Later in the hearing, in an exchange with Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., Chew denied it shares U.S. data with the Chinese Communist Party, saying that TikTok is a "private business" that like many others, relies on a "global workforce."that TikTok represents a Chinese espionage operation, a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement there was "no truth" to the allegation.
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