A committee in the US House of Representatives advanced two bipartisan bills on Thursday that would compel ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to divest the short video sharing app, and require data brokers to prevent personal data collected on the app from being sold to foreign adversaries.
Both bills, which were introduced Tuesday, passed 50-0 through the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, in the latest challenge facing TikTok and data brokers more broadly.
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