
The nine Republican senators asked for TikTok's responses by July 18. What's next: Carr requested responses from Apple and Alphabet by July 8.
Last week, the platform was at the center of VidCon, the annual conference for video creators where YouTube once reigned supreme. Of note: TikTok continues to grow in popularity in the U.S.
Amid those talks, ByteDance considered plans for a U.S. The president had this weird cocaine sniff and he sounded like a bad actor reading his. The intrigue: While facing the Trump administration's threat of a shutdown, TikTok received interest from Microsoft, Walmart and Oracle. Someone sent me a TikTok of some of that Oval Office speech I missed. Apple did not respond to a request for comment. user data on an as-needed basis under those strict controls," Oberwetter said. Over the course of 2020, a new wave of controversy has arisen over the use of the popular social media app TikTok across the world and specifically here in the United States. TikTok has consistently maintained that our engineers in locations outside of the U.S., including China, can be granted access to U.S. "We employ access controls like encryption and security monitoring to secure user data, and the access approval process is overseen by our U.S.-based security team. Maya, who has over 1.5 million followers, unmuted and explained she was filming a TikTok, to which her boss asked, On the clock and suggested she take a minute to handle the situation and. TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter said in a statement that the company "will gladly engage with members of Congress to set the record straight regarding BuzzFeed's misleading reporting.". "I could care less where that data is stored, and for them to continue to mislead people by focusing on storage rather than access, I think it is a problem." What they're saying: "I've lost faith and confidence in TikTok's operation given their failure to be direct and clear about who has access to ," Carr tells Kerry. I’m not going to go into the entire proposal. Will a deal with Oracle to store its U.S. There’s also a commitment to create TikTok Global as a U.S.-headquartered company with 20,000 new jobs, Mr. A sale never materialized as the Biden administration took over. Why it matters: In a 2020 move against China, the Trump administration pressured TikTok owner ByteDance to sell its U.S.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about the Biden administration's national security review of TikTok. Last week, six Republican senators asked U.S.Nine Republican senators also sent a letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about similar concerns.data, Kerry writes.ĭriving the news: Republican FCC commissioner Brendan Carr sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai requesting TikTok be removed from their companies' app stores due to data privacy concerns. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. TikTok's data practices are under scrutiny again in Washington, D.C., after a BuzzFeed News report and TikTok's news on data storage with Oracle brought renewed concerns of Chinese access to U.S.