TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is claiming his China-founded app has not shared Americans’ data with the Chinese government as fears mount that the Chinese Communist Party can leverage the platform to influence and track Americans.
Mr. Chew will dispute that his company tracks people as he plans to put distance between TikTok and China in prepared testimony he will deliver to the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday.
He intends to cite a March 2021 report from the Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab that found no overt data transmission from TikTok to China’s government. Mr. Chew intends to tell lawmakers that there are several misconceptions about the type of data TikTok collects on its users. Mr. Chew’s gripe with claims that TikTok tracks people may be semantic. More than half of U.S. states have government websites that contain web-tracking code created by ByteDance, according to a Wall Street Journal report this week citing new research shared by the Toronto-based company Feroot Security.
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