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China said on Friday it was “never” asking companies to hand over data collected overseas as calls mount to ban the TikTok app in the United States on national security grounds.
The famous short video platform, owned by Chinese group ByteDance, which is popular with young people, has been accused of giving Chinese authorities access to its users’ data around the world. tik tak refute this information.
Its chief executive, Show Tzu Chu, was under intense questioning on Thursday by Republican and Democratic U.S. congressmen who fear Beijing could use tik tak spy and collect data.
Beijing denied the allegations on Friday, saying it “attaches great importance to the protection of private data.”
Government China “He has never asked and will never ask companies or individuals to collect or transfer data from foreign countries in a way that violates local laws,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a press conference.
“The United States government has not yet provided any evidence that tik tak poses a threat to national security,” he added, criticizing his “unacceptable attacks” on the platform.
China says it never asked TikTok to break laws to provide information | Fountain: EFE
The White House, the European Commission, the Canadian and British governments, and other organizations have recently banned their officials from using tik tak on professional devices.
At the center of the controversy is a 2017 Chinese law that requires local companies to hand over personal data relevant to national security to authorities that request it.
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tik tak belongs to the Chinese group ByteDance, which has a similar but different app for China.
On Thursday, Chu had to admit that some personal data about Americans is still subject to the law. Chinabut insisted that this would soon change.
The person in charge promised that by the end of the year, all of this information related to 150 million US users would be managed exclusively by Oracle’s Texas group servers located in the US.
In November, ByteDance acknowledged that employees China may have access to data of European users.
In December, the company explained that several employees used the data to spy on journalists. But the group vehemently denies any Chinese government control or access to this information.
“ByteDance is not owned or controlled by the Chinese government and is a private company,” Chu told congressmen.
“We believe that clear and transparent rules are needed that apply broadly to all technology companies: ownership is not the basis for resolving these issues,” the chief executive added, without convincing congressmen.
“I think the communist government in Beijing will always have control and the ability to influence what they do,” replied Frank Pallone, a Democrat.
Popularity tik tak It has grown dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching far beyond its original audience of teenagers. The app has over a billion active users worldwide.
In recent years, it has surpassed YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook in terms of “time spent” by U.S. adults on each platform, according to Insider Intelligence, and is very close to Netflix. (According to AFP)
TikTok warns US Congress that veto will hurt economy | Fountain: EFE
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