{"id":1539090,"date":"2022-07-05T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539090"},"modified":"2022-07-05T07:19:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:19:33","slug":"americans-need-to-know-communist-china-has-their-information-blackburn-demands-tiktok-testify-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americans-need-to-know-communist-china-has-their-information-blackburn-demands-tiktok-testify-before-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Americans Need To Know \u2026 Communist China Has Their Information\u2019: Blackburn Demands TikTok Testify Before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericans-need-to-know-communist-china-has-their-information-blackburn-demands-tiktok-testify-before-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>After TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/services\/files\/A5027CD8-73DE-4571-95B0-AA7064F707C1\">letter to nine GOP senators<\/a> who had questioned whether TikTok employees had access to data from U.S. users. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) demanded that TikTok testify before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The letter from the GOP senators was prompted by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access\">Buzzfeed report<\/a> centered on leaked audio from internal TikTok meetings. That report included 14 statements from nine different TikTok employees \u201cindicating that engineers in China had access to US data between September 2021 and January 2022, at the very least,\u201d Buzzfeed reported, adding that the information from those employees countered a TikTok executive\u2019s sworn\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HnH6HuFU6hI\">testimony<\/a>\u00a0before the U.S. Senate that a \u201cworld-renowned, US-based security team\u201d decided who got access to this data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatements by eight different employees describe situations where US employees had to turn to their colleagues in China to determine how US user data was flowing,\u201d Buzzfeed wrote. \u201cUS staff did not have permission or knowledge of how to access the data on their own, according to the tapes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Everything is seen in China,\u2019 said a member of TikTok\u2019s Trust and Safety department in a September 2021 meeting,\u201d Buzzfeed claimed.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew countered that the Buzzfeed report \u201ccontains allegations and insinuations that are incorrect and are not supported by facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators asked in their letter, \u201cIs it true that TikTok employees located in China currently have, or had in the past, access to U.S. user data?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployees outside the U.S., including China-based employees, can have access to TikTok user data subject to a series of robust cybersecurity controls and authorization approval protocols overseen by our U.S. based security team,\u201d Chew answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Chinese Communist Party asked you for U.S. user data, what is to stop you from providing it? Can the CCP compel you to provide this data, regardless of response? Can they access it regardless of response?\u201d the senators asked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/social-media\/tiktok-letter-republican-senators-china-data-privacy-rcna36359\">NBC News<\/a> noted, \u201cChew only partially addressed these questions in his letter, writing, \u2018We have not been asked for such data from the CCP. We have not provided U.S. user data to the CCP, nor would we if asked.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTikTok\u2019s response confirms that our fears regarding [Chinese Communist Party] influence within the company are well-founded,\u201d Blackburn told NBC News. \u201cThey should have come clean from the start but instead tried to shroud their work in secrecy. Americans need to know that if they are on TikTok, Communist China has their information.\u00a0TikTok needs to come back and testify before Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew wrote a letter to nine GOP senators who had questioned whether TikTok employees had access to data from U.S. users. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) demanded that TikTok testify before Congress. The letter from the GOP senators was prompted by a Buzzfeed report centered on leaked audio from internal TikTok &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1539220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}