three, too. big tech companies facing supreme court scrutiny in a case brought forward by some unexpected plaintiffs. why families of isis victims say google and twitter bear some responsibility for the death of their loved ones. we ll check that out, jacqui. jacqui: capitol hill is taking new action on tiktok. the latest push to crack down on the china-linked app and why bipartisan support for it seems to be growing. when it comes to china, if they tell bite dance, i want the info on the 70 million, 60 million americans, they have to turn it over. the good news of and, boy, do we need it. [ chuckles ] well, this safe driver saved money with the snapshot app from progressive. -how do you feel? -um, good? he s better than good. he got rewarded for driving safe and driving less. sorry, barb, just to confirm, this is the feel-good news of the week?
bill: let me take the other side of all this. what s the harm if someone has my data? what s the harm if they know what i search on google? because google has the information already. yeah, but it s not just someone. and google is still incorporated in america, still an american company. tiktok by virtue of the parent company, bite dance, headquartered in beijing, every private company has to work in service of the state if beijing asks and technical component, and also the fact that the ccp has leverage over a massive group of people. so if you have a data engineer looking in singapore they said our servers are only hosted in u.s. and singapore, this is tiktok speaking, if they want to put their thumb on family members in china they can have access to the data over leverage of the human terrain as well. all sorts of elements when it comes to the ccp and how they can get your information. bill: as you know on screen,
put up the map, 29 states have banned downloading tiktok on government-owned devices. what do you think about the possibility tiktok would sell their entire company to an american-owned business and therefore continues to operate in the u.s.? is that feasible? what the trump administration was trying to do with oracle, it did not come to fruition, but i submit this is only a partial solution because we know that some personal devices can access government wi-fi. we know tiktok has your device identifiers, it collects those as well. i used to be in the intel community and what we tried to do, paint a comprehensive intelligence picture. so take little pieces of information like a device identifier, if a personal device connects to a wi-fi and figure out people s patterns that way. it s just a partial solution if they only ban it from government devices. bill: i m out of time, but do
up profits by kids and parents pain. they will receive protection under the law since they have since 1996, they cannot moderate content in a way biased against conservatives. the first case will be argued tomorrow at 10:00, the second wednesday at 10:00. a decision is expected by late june. what both parties can agree on, the internet is vastly different than 1996, where you had 300 million people on the internet, now 400 billion people. jacqui: this could certainly change legislation stalled for any number of reasons in congress, and potentially, you know, influence the future from the top down. so, interesting to watch. david spunt, thank you. you are welcome. bill: support growing from both sides of the aisle to take action against tiktok. bills proposed in the house and senate to ban the social media app throughout the u.s., and the chinese spy flight the military recently shot may have given this all a new sense of urgency.
that. even if you ban tiktok, wouldn t they have another app? it s possible. we know the problem proprietary algorithm, that s the secret sauce, and works differently than something at meta, my old place of business or twitter and what it does, it looks at your engagement, so how you engage with specific videos and then feeds you what you are most interested in making it a lot more highly addictive. bill: instagram does that, too, and other apps. here is angus king, a senator from maine, independent, watch. i think what s changed is the level of chinese activity in the united states. i just think it s downright dangerous to have a company that potentially is a pipeline to the chinese communist government that s collecting data on americans.