It’s not really a crazy love between TikTok and the United States. To tell the truth, it never happened. TikTok was already banned in the United States under the Trump administration a few years ago. Recently, an American FCC official even sent a letter to Apple and Google asking them to remove the app from their respective stores.
Now it’s US senators’ turn to tighten the loop around the social network that is all the rage in China and elsewhere on the planet. An American parliamentary committee just asked on Tuesday an investigation into suspicious TikTok apps regarding the privacy of personal data. Pressure is mounting for the social network of Chinese group ByteDance.
TikTok is under investigation in the US
TikTok is at the center of the controversy in the United States, following a BuzzFeed article published in mid-June. The article in question claims that several employees of ByteDance in China, which later owns TikTok, have repeatedly had access to it. non-public data about several American users of the social network. TikTok later confirmed this information and tried to reassure various American elected officials in the process. But he did not succeed, because the chairman and vice chairman of the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate, “ obvious deception “.
According to them, ” China-based employees were given full access to information about US users, such as birth dates, phone numbers, and other authentication data. “. It’s an important problem because Chinese laws especially force companies in the country to share their data If the Beijing government requires it.
TikTok is trying to defend itself, and a spokesperson for the app reacted and said, ” TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government, nor will it when asked to. “. In mid-June, the Chinese social network announced that all data of American users of the application is now stored on Oracle group servers in the United States. The situation to follow.
