TikTok tells senators how it plans to beef up data security for American users
that China-based engineers of ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, accessed non-public data on users in the US between at least September 2021 and January 2022.
The report also prompted Brendan Carr, the Federal Communication Commission's senior Republican commissioner, to from their stores. Carr requested a response from the companies by July 8th if they choose not to remove TikTok from the App Store and Play Store, respectively.reporting, though conceded that ByteDance workers outside the US can access American user data"subject to a series of robust cybersecurity controls and authorization approval protocols overseen by our US-based security team.
Legislators have been raising security concerns about TikTok over the last few years. In August 2020, then-president Donald Trump
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