In a letter, two US senators accuse TikTok of misleading Congress on the company's handling of US user data, demanding answers to 12+ questions by June 16
As a European, it's quite pathetic to see US politicians talk about privacy when US tech companies and data brokers are some of the worst in the world. TikTok is not even remotely as bad as what the US ad-tech industry has done for decades. https://twitter.com/...
the letter cited this story from @RMac18 and me, which described how sensitive U.S. user data was shared at TikTok and ByteDance through its internal messaging and collaboration system, Lark. we also reported on Lark data being stored on servers in China. https://www.nytimes.com/…
the senators are requesting responses to more than a dozen questions by next Friday, focused on how sensitive data about American users may be stored in China and accessed by employees there
NEW: @SenBlumenthal and @MarshaBlackburn sent a letter to TikTok's CEO on Tuesday, accusing the company of making misleading claims to Congress around how it stores and handles U.S. user data. the letter cited new reports in May from Forbes and @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/..…