{"id":1807563,"date":"2023-01-16T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807563"},"modified":"2023-01-16T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T20:21:44","slug":"tiktok-proposes-1-5-billion-plan-to-u-s-lawmakers-amid-national-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-proposes-1-5-billion-plan-to-u-s-lawmakers-amid-national-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Proposes $1.5 Billion Plan To U.S. Lawmakers Amid National Security Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftiktok-proposes-1-5-billion-plan-to-u-s-lawmakers-amid-national-security-concerns%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=1807563&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-->\n<p>TikTok officials revealed details of negotiations with U.S lawmakers in a $1.5 Billion plan. This would increase transparency and reorganize its operations in the U.S. amid concerns about China-owned social media giant.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported that communication between TikTok&#8217;s video-sharing app, and the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment (which oversees how TikTok operates in America), has been kept private. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/tiktok-tries-to-win-allies-in-the-u-s-with-more-transparency-11673836560\">reported<\/a>As at least 25 states have placed restrictions on the app on their government-owned devices, these bans were in response to national security threats and data privacy.<\/p>\n<p>According to TikTok representatives, the proposal will address these concerns. \u201ccontent recommendation and user-data access with layers of government and independent oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not waiting for an agreement to be in place,\u201d A spokeswoman confirmed the statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve made substantial progress on implementing that solution over the past year and look forward to completing that work to put these concerns to rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Growing security concerns over the social media platform have caught lawmakers\u2019 attention recently after the Federal Communications Commission said it could not regulate the social media app or control American data from flowing back to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which requires companies to share its data upon request under the country\u2019s 2017 National Intelligence Law.<\/p>\n<p>Solutions reported by the Journal show officials discussed creating a system to monitor the app\u2019s algorithms and hiring watchdogs to surveil officials from Chinese tech giant ByteDance, which owns TikTok, from manipulating the user\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p>Although some supporters of the proposal claim that these measures would make it difficult for the CCP in the U.S. to intervene, Journalists heard from skeptics who said they would not trust ByteDance even though they had not seen the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is becoming more and more untenable for a company to comply with American laws and also comply with Chinese laws,\u201d Jacob Helberg is a senior adviser at Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology. He spoke to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>ByteDance was accused of spying on multiple Forbes reporters under a covert surveillance campaign. This allowed employees to gain access to information like the IP addresses of TikTok users who were connected to the journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes reported that ByteDance\u2019s Internal Audit and Risk Control department was responsible for the alleged plan to monitor the locations of specific American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The app was also limited by federal officials as part of $1.7 trillion in December spending under the Constitution. \u201cNo TikTok on Government Devices Act\u201d Sen. Josh Hawley (R.MO) introduced TikTok, which he referred too. \u201ca Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-WI, recently compared TikTok with \u201cdigital fentanyl\u201d Despite efforts to ban the app in America,<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democratic Congressman from Illinois, had previously introduced legislation to ban the app.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal was concerned by the CCP&#8217;s influence over video sharing and privacy. He also expressed concern that the Journal could potentially censor videos critical to the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor younger users, the concern isn\u2019t that they\u2019re using TikTok just to watch stupid videos,\u201d Gallagher co-sponsored a bipartisan bill that would ban TikTok&#8217;s operation in the U.S. \u201cIt\u2019s that they\u2019re relying on TikTok to get their news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials could reportedly try to force the ByteDance to sell some of its operations or leave the U.S. if a deal hasn\u2019t been reached with TikTok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok officials disclosed negotiation details with U.S. lawmakers in a $1.5 billion plan that would reportedly increase transparency and reorganize how it operates in the U.S. amid national security concerns about the Chinese-owned social media giant. Communication between the video-sharing app and the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, which oversees how TikTok would operate in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1807566,"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":[541],"tags":[11816,5241,6202,3673,4107,4025,5392,3646,6248,7238,6195],"class_list":["post-1807563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-1-5","tag-concerns","tag-daily","tag-lawmakers","tag-national","tag-plan","tag-proposes","tag-security","tag-tiktok","tag-u-s","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807563","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1807566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}