Hawley said on Twitter he invited both TikTok and Apple to appear at the hearing, but they declined. He singled out TikTok, saying the company 'has refused to join the hearing and provide more info on how it handles Americans’ personal data'. — AFP
Apple Inc and the Chinese-owned music-video app TikTok are threats to international data security because of their business ties to China, a key Republican senator warned.
"With Apple and TikTok, we see two sides of the same coin when it comes to data security: the danger of Chinese tech platforms’ entry into the US market, and the danger of American tech companies’ operations in China,” Missouri lawmaker Josh Hawley told a hearing he led on big data and China Tuesday.
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