""For Facebook, the fear is lost social media market share. ), asked U.S. intelligence officials late Wednesday to determine whether the Chinese-owned social-networking app TikTok poses “national security risks.”In a letter to Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, the lawmakers questioned TikTok’s data-collection practices and whether the app adheres to censorship rules directed by the Chinese government that could limit what U.S. users see. The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance's $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly, according to … Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg In their letter, Schumer and Cotton questioned TikTok’s terms of service, saying the app collects a wide array of data, including information about a user’s location. TikTok is a short-form video app especially popular among Gen Z, and it has amassed 1.5 billion downloads. "TikTok "should have been here today, but after this letter to this committee, they must now appear, under oath, to tell the truth about their company and its ambitions and what they're doing with our data," Hawley added. “Given these concerns, we ask that the Intelligence Community conduct an assessment of the national security risks posed by TikTok and other China-based content platforms operating in the U.S. and brief Congress on these findings.”The request adds to growing regulatory headaches in the United States for China’s growing tech industry and global ambitions long have been characterized as a threat by the U.S. government and Silicon Valley, which argue that a shift in technological dominance to the world’s second-largest economy could imperil American business, research and national security.
"The threat isn't just to children's privacy, it's a threat to our national security. ""No governments, foreign or domestic, direct how we moderate TikTok content — that is left in the capable hands of professional content moderation teams led by our U.S.-based team," she wrote, adding, "TikTok does not remove content based on sensitivities related to China (or other countries). Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton wrote in a letter Wednesday to Director of … He joined The Post in 2014 and has covered national business and the Trump companies. Now, a number of United States military branches are … For the rest of us, the fear is somewhat different," he continued. TSA is the latest US government agency to ban TikTok on government devices. Meanwhile, TikTok is banned in India along with … Drew Harwell is a technology reporter for The Washington Post covering artificial intelligence and the algorithms changing our lives. The Chinese-owned video app TikTok poses a potential “national security risk,” Sens. Pappas also said the company pledges to engage in ongoing, independent audits of its data security practices, adding that TikTok has "a dedicated technical team focused on adhering to robust cybersecurity policies, data privacy and security practices. "While we cannot comment on ongoing regulatory processes, TikTok has made clear that we have no higher priority than earning the trust of users and regulators in the US," a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement. We never been asked by the Chinese government to remove any content, and we would not do so if asked. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Get breaking news and insider analysis on the rapidly changing world of media and technology right to your inbox.Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 1, 2019. He has spent nearly ten years covering the ways that tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google navigate the corridors of government -- and the regulations that sometimes result. "The company was invited, along with Apple, to appear in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing titled "How Corporations and Big Tech Leave Our Data Exposed to Criminals, China, and Other Bad Actors."