{"id":1542026,"date":"2022-07-06T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542026"},"modified":"2022-07-06T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T22:05:46","slug":"sens-warner-rubio-call-for-investigation-of-chinas-access-to-data-of-us-tiktok-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sens-warner-rubio-call-for-investigation-of-chinas-access-to-data-of-us-tiktok-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Warner, Rubio Call for Investigation of China\u2019s Access to Data of US TikTok Users"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fsens-warner-rubio-call-for-investigation-of-chinas-access-to-data-of-us-tiktok-users%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=1542026&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>U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the top Republican member of the panel, are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to formally investigate the relationship between the regime in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> and the owner of social media giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-tiktok\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe write in response to public reports that individuals in the People\u2019s Republic of China [PRC] have been accessing data on U.S. users, in contravention of several public representations, including sworn testimony in October 2021,\u201d the senators told FTC Chair Lina Khan in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warner.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/3\/e\/3eeb87b3-e9b5-4aa4-8ea1-361a8472ff46\/A42795C63518B32671F9ACCF82B1E26A.khan-ssci-tiktok-letter.pdf\">letter<\/a> made public late on July 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of this new report, we ask that your agency immediately initiate a Section 5 investigation on the basis of apparent deception by TikTok, and coordinate this work with any national security or counter-intelligence investigation that may be initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice,\u201d the senators told Kahn.<\/p>\n<p>Warner and Rubio were referring to recent reports by The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/tiktok-accesses-american-data-casey-fleming-breaks-down-the-threat_4548594.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">Epoch Times<\/a> and other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access\">media<\/a>\u00a0outlets that indicate individuals associated with the Chinese Communist Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ccp\">CCP<\/a>) have regular access to data on U.S. users of TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>That flatly contradicts multiple assertions made to Congress and others by officials at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bytedance\">bytedance<\/a>, which owns TikTok, that U.S. users\u2019 data isn\u2019t made available to Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an interview with the online publication Cyberscoop, the Global Chief Security Officer for TikTok\u2019s parent company, ByteDance, made a number of public representations on the data security practices of TikTok, including unequivocal claims that the data of American users is not accessible to the Chinese Communist Party and the government of the PRC,\u201d the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, TikTok\u2019s privacy practices are already subject to a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission, based on its improper collection and processing of personal information from children,\u201d Warner and Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>The two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the top Republican member of the panel, are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to formally investigate the relationship between the regime in China and the owner of social media giant TikTok. \u201cWe write in response to public reports that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":1894768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senators-warner-rubio-calling-for-investigation-of-chinas-access-to-data-of-us-tiktok-users_4579078.html","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542026","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}