Critics of TikTok in Congress are using the suspected Chinese spy balloon that appeared over Montana last week as a rallying point, highlighting security concerns percolating around both the app and the balloon.
on Forbes journalists. TikTok has said it’s trying to remove any doubt about the security of U.S. user data, and it said the people responsible for spying on the Forbes reporters were no longer employed there after they misused their authority.
The app’s parent company, ByteDance, has recently undertaken a lobbying and media blitz to counter efforts to ban TikTok entirely in the U.S. “There is absolutely no connection between these two things. Anyone suggesting there is should not be taken seriously on matters of national security,” TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter said.“TikTok is its own thing. U.S. policy relative to China should not be based on the outrage of the day or the balloon of the week,” said Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., a co-chair of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Group.
“So far I have not called for a total ban, but I am not far from that conclusion,” said Cramer, a member of the Armed Services Committee.Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP filein U.S. elections. “I think we need to have a very in-depth analysis to determine our vulnerabilities,” said Palmer, the GOP Policy Committee chairman. “I definitely think it should be out of government.”
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