FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo attends a press conference at the Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services near the Shanghai Pudong International Airport, in Shanghai, China August 30, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo supports legislation giving the Commerce Department new tools to address foreign adversary-owned app information concerns, she said on Wednesday.
Her comments come as concerns about Chinese-owned TikTok have sparked new efforts in Congress to boost powers to address it or potentially ban the popular short video sharing app, but those bills have stalled in Congress. TikTok, which has more than 150 million U.S. users, denies it improperly uses U.S. data.
