TikTok's CEO, Shou Zi Chew is likely to face a barrage of questions from US lawmakers on Thursday on the videosharing app's relationship with China, what data it collects, and what it does with it.
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the apparent ultimatum saying that washington has filled to produce evidence that tiktok is a threat to national security. the popular social media platform is under growing scrutiny, governments around the world are concerned data collected from users phones could hand up in the hands of chinese government. new zealand and the uk announced that tiktok will be banned on government devices following similar measures by the u.s., canada, and the british union. they say that this explanation to lawmakers. mister speaker, this is a precautionary move, we know that there is already limited use of tiktok across government but it is also good cyber hygiene. for more on, this i want to bring in chris walker, who is the author of the book, tiktok boom about how the act is shaping the social media. and, he joins us now from newcastle, england. thank you so much for being with us. we just started a growing number of governments around the world have banned tiktok on official government device
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touching distance, in his words, of the abyss. let s get more now on the news that the uk has become the latest country to ban ministers and civil servants from having the social media app tiktok on their phones and devices for security reasons. it s been claimed the chinese owned video sharing app passes information about users to the chinese government something the owners, bytedance, deny. joining me now is journalist and author chris stokel walker, who wrote tiktok boom, a book which explores the app and the company behind it. are these security concerns are valid in your opinion, these concerns that we hear from mps and many other campaigners saying that