Here's what TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to say to U.S. lawmakers Thursday
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will highlight the app’s safety measures to protect minors and efforts to firewall U.S. user data from foreign access as he speaks to U.S. lawmakers Thursday, according to the
He will outline various efforts on TikTok’s part to protect minor users—especially teenagers—saying TikTok has “been a leader on these issues” and “other platforms have adopted some of the protections that we have pioneered.” The speech notes that the company has already spent over $1.5 billion to build a firewall between U.S. user data and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, which includes storing American user data on Oracle’s servers, while also allowing the American tech company and independent observers to audit its data handling, algorithm and content moderation practices.
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