Washington: A Group of Six Republicans senators On Friday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asked about the Biden administration’s national security review of social media platform TikTok.
The US Government Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews deals by foreign acquirers for potential national security risks, ordered Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok in 2020 because of fears that US user data could be passed on to China. communist government.
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Last week, TikTok said it had completed migrating the information of its US users to Oracle Corp’s servers, as it seeks to address US concerns over data integrity.
Senators Tom Cotton, Ben Sasse, Mike Braun, Marco Rubio, Todd Young and Roger Wicker asked Yellen a series of questions, saying the administration had done nothing to implement the “August 2020 split order”. Similarly, a year later has not been released publicly.”
Senators Want to Know “Will TikTok Be Managed Locally in the United States?” and “Will the US government have the ability to regularly access and inspect the source code of the algorithm?” It also asks “What assurances does the US government have that TikTok will store US data and adopt privacy policies with adequate security?”
TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Former President Donald Trump attempted to ban new users from downloading WeChat and TikTok and ban other transactions, effectively blocking access to the apps in the United States, but lost a series of court battles.
In June 2021, President Joe Biden withdrew a series of Trump executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of apps and ordered the Commerce Department to review the security concerns posed by the apps.
The senators said TikTok’s proposal to store the information of its US users without ByteDance access would “do little to address core security concerns.”
Sources said that CFIUS is having extensive discussions with TikTok on security issues. A spokesman for Yellen declined to comment on Friday.
TikTok is one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users globally, and counts the US as its largest market.
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