{"id":11962,"date":"2023-03-23T21:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/tiktok-ceo-aims-to-defend-apps-safety-measures-before-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T21:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T20:38:54","slug":"tiktok-ceo-aims-to-defend-apps-safety-measures-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/tiktok-ceo-aims-to-defend-apps-safety-measures-before-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok CEO aims to defend app&#039;s safety measures before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being embroiled in controversies about its data privacy for more than a year, TikTok CEO Chew is set to testify before Congress on Thursday to address \u201cmisconceptions\u201d about the app and its parent company, ByteDance. Lawmakers have long expressed concerns about the app\u2019s connections with the Chinese government and its possible use to target American consumers, leading to calls for a ban on the app in the US. Chew aims to argue that banning TikTok would harm the country\u2019s economy and that the Chinese government has no control over the app.<br \/>\nDuring his testimony, Chew plans to highlight the app\u2019s safety features and Project Texas, a billion-dollar initiative designed to protect the data of US users. He will also mention that the company is currently erasing historically protected US user data stored in non-Oracle servers and that the Chinese government cannot access data under their current app structure.<br \/>\n\u201cByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country. Rather, our approach has been to work transparently and cooperatively with the U.S. government and Oracle to design robust solutions to address concerns about TikTok\u2019s heritage,\u201d reads Chew\u2019s remarks.<br \/>\nTough times for TikTok<br \/>\nDespite TikTok\u2019s efforts to safeguard US user data, recent reports of the FBI investigating the company for spying on US journalists have worsened matters for the company. Lawmakers are likely to criticize Chew for TikTok\u2019s connections to ByteDance and China. Nevertheless, Chew contends that the allegations that TikTok is \u201cbeholden to the Chinese government\u201d are untrue, and he describes ByteDance as a \u201cglobal enterprise\u201d established by Chinese entrepreneurs.<br \/>\nTikTok CEO Chew\u2019s appearance before Congress will be his first, and his testimony could have a significant impact. With lawmakers threatening to ban the app unless the company divests from ByteDance, Chew\u2019s defence of TikTok\u2019s safety measures and its parent company\u2019s autonomy will determine the company\u2019s fate in the US.<br \/>\nThe post TikTok CEO aims to defend app&#8217;s safety measures before Congress appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TikTok-App-Logo-AM-AH-3.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1789\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being embroiled in controversies about its data privacy for more than a year, TikTok CEO Chew is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":11963,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11972,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions\/11972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}