Three senators said recent news reports contradict CEO Shou Zi Chew's sworn testimony about where the app stores US user data.
accessed US creators’ sensitive financial information and other datahe told lawmakers US user data “has always been stored in Virginia and Singapore in the past,” the letter notes.“We are deeply troubled by TikTok’s recurring pattern of providing misleading, inaccurate, or false information to Congress and its users in the United States, including in response to us during oversight hearings and letters,” the senators wrote.
In their letter, Sens. Blumenthal and Blackburn sent TikTok a list of 14 questions grilling the company on when it stores data in China and whether or not the company can be legally compelled to share Americans stored in China to Beijing officials. The company has until June 16 to provide answers to those questions.
“Chew should be held accountable for making false statements about material facts related to TikTok’s operation, as he appears to have done in this case,” Rubio said.
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