This week lawmakers went a step further and passed a data-privacy bill stopping certain companies from selling information to 'foreign adversary' countries.
by CHRISTOPHER WHITE | THE NATIONAL DESKFILE - The TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, Sept. 28, 2020, in Tokyo, Japan.
Many reports have highlighted the extent to which China uses TikTok to spy on adversaries. One former employee of ByteDance outlined in a court filing last year specific claims that the Chinese Communist Party accessed data of TikTok users on a broad scale, CNNTikTok has long dismissed these claims, with company executives arguing Beijing does not have access to the app's data. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in front of Congress last year and reiterated the company's position.
If House members were really concerned about privacy, there wouldn’t be much of an obstacle to have at least having a bill on the floor, being debated, being worked on," Greene told The National Desk. "We don’t see any of that happening right now. Several progressive lawmakers who opposed the TikTok divestment bill supported the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act. It passed Wednesday.
While the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act targets the data broker industry, it does not impact the domestic buying and selling of private information.
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