TikTok CEO to testify before House panel about app’s security and ties to China
TikTok CEO to testify before House panel in March (cnbc.com)
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before a House panel on March 23 about the app’s security and privacy practices and its ties to China through parent company ByteDance. “ByteDance-owned TikTok has knowingly allowed the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access American user data,” E&C Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., said in a statement. He believes Americans deserve to know how these actions impact their privacy and security and its effect on the online and offline harms. With expressing their concern, they hope Congress can take a more deliberative approach. The US government and the company’s security negotiations has continued to drag on. It has been reported that is has continued to be delayed. TikTok’s security and privacy implications has consumed Congress and stretched from the Trump administration into the Biden administration.
It has come to attention that many schools have banned TikTok on their network. This means that students who are using the school’s wifi cannot use TikTok. Gonzaga University has yet to do this. I think it is just a matter of time to when Gonzaga will ban TikTok.