americans on tiktok tiktok ceo grilled on capitol hill lawmakers look to ban the platform. tiktok is a weapon by the chinese communist party to spy on you. first of all disagree with the characterization that is spying and warned of possible mental health impacts for kids. kids your technology is literally leading to death. tonight we ll talk to popular tiktokers about why they log on. i m asking politicians don t take away the community that we have all built and answer your questions. what data elements are being collected. teens are finding ways around all these parental controls. cnn prime time is time up for tiktok. good evening. i m abby phillip. it s one of the most popular social media apps on the planet , and it is also one of the most controversial a billion monthly active users over 150 million right here in the united states. they shoot and they share videos on tiktok for fun or they watch them and others earn entire incomes through it. so many of the nations were
been $10 trillion. nobody is putting up that money. bytedance for accessing private data through users tiktok account. tiktok is scrambling to regain trust. trojan horse for the chinese communist party. really add costumes. williams christmas soul against the jaguar. i wish it could be christmas everyday. i wish it could be christmas every day. brian: we haven t done much to signify the coming of christmas besides santa, besides the tree. besides the myriad of trees downstairs and virtual celebration that is happening in our studio electronically. christmas just a couple days away according to reports. and santa is getting a little cocky going that circle as if to say i have plenty of time to get it all done. don t worry about me. will: i agree. i find it cocky, especially some of the americans might have trouble flying today. santa cruzsasanta cruzing arouns slay. carley: santa won t have travel issues because he has rudolph to guide him. brian: elf when
would be quite expensive for us. buyer abby. your guess is as good as mine. yeah. i mean, it is. there are billions of dollars tied up in that vanessa, your cave, which thank you very much. now the focus on today s hearing in washington was washington and tiktok 150. million people across the united states use that apps. so what could all of this mean for them here to discuss? that is cara swisher, host of the podcast pivot. and on with kara swisher and the u. s. editor in chief of tech radar. lance ulanoff. karen want to start with you. look this was a tense hearing today to say the least. i want you to take a listen to. i think one of the key moments from today s hearing. do any bite dance employees in china, including engineers currently have access to user us user data. today all us user data is stored by default in the oracle cloud
hearing in washington was washington and tiktok 150. million people across the united states use that apps. so what could all of this mean for them here to discuss? that is cara swisher, host of the podcast pivot. and on with kara swisher and the u. s. editor in chief of tech radar. lance ulanoff. karen want to start with you. look this was a tense hearing today to say the least. i want you to take a listen to. i think one of the key moments from today s hearing. do any bite dance employees in china, including engineers currently have access to user us user data. today. all us user data is stored by default in the oracle cloud infrastructure and access to that is controlled any american dance employees in china, including engineers currently have access to us they are congressman would appreciate this. this is a complex topic
tiktok. the trump administration tried and failed to ban tiktok in 2020. several courts ruled it violated the international emergency economic powers act, a law that biden administration is also up against. does it have any new legal authorities or powers to actually do it? no and so this is why we come back to. we re likely to get a restriction on tiktok based on what the executive branch can do right now. a complete ban, practically speaking, is unlikely at this point. and as a way to address some of these security concerns. tiktok announced that in june of 2022, they had moved all of us privacy data onto us servers. but in december of last year, several bite dance employees as part of an internal audit did access us journalists. emails covering tiktok now bite dancing. tiktok has said that those individuals