TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's defense against allegations that Americans' data is vulnerable to the Chinese Communist Party faced deep bipartisan skepticism at a House hearing Thursday, as fears over the app's security risk mount.
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert wants TikTok to stop characterizing his team's research as exonerating the China-founded app from allegations that it snoops on Americans and cooperates with China's communist government.
TikTok acknowledged collecting the precise location information of U.S. users despite previously downplaying concerns about how it tracked people's physical location.
On a trip to China in 2011, then-Vice President Joe Biden went before Sichuan University students and talked of a day when their countrymen would operate in virtually every American power center.
Momentum for efforts to restrict TikTok is building in the Senate, and House lawmakers are preparing to grill the company's CEO, as the China-founded app looks to be running out of time to persuade federal lawmakers not to limit its operations.