The senators want to know “will TikTok be locally managed in the United States?” and “Will the U.S. government have the ability to routinely access and inspect the algorithm’s source code?” It also asks “what assurances does the U.S. government have that TikTok will store U.S. data and adopt privacy policies with adequate protections?”
A group of six Republican senators asked US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about an ongoing Biden administration national security review of social media platform
The US government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews deals by foreign acquirers for potential national security risks, in 2020 ordered Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok because of fears that US user data could be passed on to China’s communist government. Last week, TikTok said it has completed migrating information on its U.
