US House Panel to Vote , on Possible TikTok Ban.
US House Panel to Vote , on Possible TikTok Ban.
Reuters reports that next month, the
House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a vote on a bill aimed at halting the use of TikTok in the U.S.
The concern is that this app gives the Chinese government a back door into our phones. , Michael McCaul, panel chair representative, via 'Bloomberg News'.
Reuters reports that for the past three years, TikTok has been adamant that it
cannot access Americans' personal data.
The social media app also assures
Washington that its content can't be influenced by China's Communist Party.
The social media app also assures
Washington that its content can't be influenced by China's Communist Party.
TikTok issued a statement regarding the House panel's upcoming vote.
Calls for total bans of TikTok take a piecemeal approach to national security and a piecemeal approach to broad industry issues like data security, privacy, and online harms, TikTok, via Reuters .
Reuters reports that the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) has been in talks with TikTok since 2021 in an attempt to establish a national security agreement.
TikTok says it has invested close
to $1.5 billion on those efforts.
The company asserts that it has a , "comprehensive package of measures with layers of government and independent oversight to ensure that there are no backdoors into TikTok that could be used to manipulate the platform.".
Last month, legislation banning federal employees from using TikTok on
government devices was enacted.
Reuters reports
that TikTok has over
100 million users in the U.S.