{"id":50448,"date":"2022-07-15T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50448"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:47:58","slug":"gop-presses-tiktok-on-us-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50448","title":{"rendered":"GOP presses TikTok on US data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two high-ranking House Republicans are asking TikTok for more information about the access that China-based employees of its parent company ByteDance have to American data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe write to request documents and information regarding recent reports that TikTok allows China-based employees of its parent company, ByteDance, to access non-public U.S. user data, contrary to the company\u2019s previous denials,\u201d\u00a0the top Republican on the Oversight committee,\u00a0<strong>James Comer\u00a0<\/strong>(R-Ky.)<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0and top Republican on the\u00a0Energy and Commerce Committee, Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), wrote in a letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf true, not only did TikTok misrepresent or provide false testimony about its data management and security practices, but it has placed the safety and privacy of millions of U.S. citizens in jeopardy,\u201d they added in the letter sent Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The short form video platform had maintained since exploding in popularity in the U.S. that data from Americans was not accessible in China, where security laws make it easy for the government to obtain information held by companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two high-ranking House Republicans are asking&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50449,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50448\/revisions\/50449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}