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The TikTok phenomenon has made the world of social networks obsolete, but the application is already in the crosshairs of several States that want to limit its influence. China said on March 24 that it is not asking companies to provide it with data obtained abroad, at a time when its TikTok app could be banned in the United States.
With Cristóbal Vásquez, our correspondent in the United States, and the AFP.
In his first hearing before the US Congress, the executive director of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew, responded to questions about the use that his social network is giving to the information of millions of Americans. And it is that Tiktok, with more than 150 million users in the United States, is part of ByteDance, a company based in China, and is undergoing increasing scrutiny from Washington.
“Hypothetical and theoretical risks”
President Joe Biden wants to ban it for fear that user data will end up in the hands of the Chinese government and could be used to spread disinformation. Something that Shou Chew denied: “I have not seen evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data. They have never asked us. We have not provided them.”
“I think a lot of the risks that are being pointed out are hypothetical and theoretical risks,” Chew also responded. “I look forward to the discussions where we talk about the evidence,” he added. “And then we can address the concerns that are being raised,” he stressed.
At the time, Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok but failed because the courts blocked him. If Biden manages to ban it, limit it and force its sale, he will have to have the support of Congress. An endorsement that he already received from Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House of Representatives, who said he would support a ban on the fastest growing social network in the United States.
Shou Zi Chew promised that, by the end of the year, all information related to the country’s 150 million users will be handled only from servers located in the United States.
China denies
Beijing “has never asked and will not ask companies or individuals to collect or deliver data from foreign countries in a way that violates local law,” Mao Ning, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, told a news conference on Friday. Chinese. The Chinese government “gives great importance to the protection of private data,” she added.
“The US government has not presented any evidence that TikTok poses a threat to national security but has instead repeated presumptions of guilt and unacceptable attacks” against the company, the spokeswoman said. “We have also noted that some in the United States Congress declared that seeking to ban TikTok amounted to xenophobic political persecution,” she insisted.
