{"id":9385,"date":"2023-03-23T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/congress-to-grill-tiktok-ceo-over-data-privacy-concerns-and-safety-of-users\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:37:18","slug":"congress-to-grill-tiktok-ceo-over-data-privacy-concerns-and-safety-of-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/congress-to-grill-tiktok-ceo-over-data-privacy-concerns-and-safety-of-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to grill TikTok CEO over data privacy concerns and safety of users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extremely popular app has provoked the ire of two presidential administrations and Congress over its ties to China<\/p>\n<p>The chief executive of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, is set to face a grilling from US lawmakers on Thursday as the political storm surrounding the China-owned social media platform intensifies with the Biden administration threatening to ban the app entirely in the US.g<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has long faced criticisms over the data it holds on US users \u2013 data that lawmakers fear could fall into the hands of the Chinese government. While the platform has repeatedly denied those claims, stating it stores US user data outside of China, legislators on both sides of the aisle have united in their backlash despite the company\u2019s growing popularity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/23\/tiktok-shou-zi-chew-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1ee4d11ca267560f7d995895d6ec2c9873b43262\/0_124_5870_3524\/master\/5870.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=75c86fbe25c2b198f3faed0cd621b992\" title=\"Congress to grill TikTok CEO over data privacy concerns and safety of users\" \/>The extremely popular app has provoked the ire of two presidential administrations and Congress over its ties to China<br \/>\nThe chief executive of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, is set to face a grilling from US lawmakers on Thursday as the political storm surrounding the China-owned social media platform intensifies with the Biden administration threatening to ban the app entirely in the US.g<br \/>\nTikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has long faced criticisms over the data it holds on US users \u2013 data that lawmakers fear could fall into the hands of the Chinese government. While the platform has repeatedly denied those claims, stating it stores US user data outside of China, legislators on both sides of the aisle have united in their backlash despite the company\u2019s growing popularity. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extremely popular app has provoked the ire of two presidential administrations and Congress over its ties to China The chief executive of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, is set to face a grilling from US lawmakers on Thursday as the political storm surrounding the China-owned social media platform intensifies with the Biden administration threatening to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/congress-to-grill-tiktok-ceo-over-data-privacy-concerns-and-safety-of-users\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congress to grill TikTok CEO over data privacy concerns and safety of users<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}