Akhirnya sendiri mengaku: TikTok chief admits Chinese parent company has access to data

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Shou Zi Chew - Jacquelyn Martin/AP

TikTok’s chief executive has admitted that users' data can be accessed by its Chinese parent company as it battles a potential ban in the United States.

In a bruising US Congress hearing, Shou Zi Chew told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that staff in China currently have the ability to see TikTok users’ information.

He said: “We rely on global interoperability, and we have employees in China, so yes, the Chinese engineers do have access to global data.”

In a confrontational session, the TikTok chief failed to win over members of Congress, who are considering whether to give Joe Biden powers to ban the app.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Republican chairman, said: “Your platform should be banned. TikTok is a weapon by the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] to spy on you, manipulate what you see, and exploit future generations.”

Congressman Neal Dunn said: “We don’t find you credible on these things,” prompting Mr Chew to complain: “You have given me no time to answer these questions; I reject these characterisations.”

Mr Chew, who is based in Singapore, told members of Congress that he had not spoken to a Chinese government official since taking charge two years ago, and that he had “no evidence” that TikTok users’ data had been accessed by the Chinese government.

When asked if ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, has been able to spy on staff, he said: ”I don't think that spying is the right way to describe it.”

Mr Chew said ByteDance employees in China will not have access to US users’ data by the end of the year, when it will complete a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) plan to move data to IT giant Oracle. The company has not made equivalent promises about UK and European users’ data.

The US government has told TikTok that it will ban it in the US if it is not spun off from its Chinese shareholders.

On Thursday, China threatened to block a forced sale of the app, saying it would “firmly oppose” the Biden administration’s plan to take the viral video app out of Chinese hands.

The commerce ministry said such a move would hit international investors’ confidence in the US. “If the news is true, China will firmly oppose it,” a spokesman for the ministry said.

Mr Chew repeatedly refused to answer questions on whether he agrees that the Chinese government represses China’s Uyghur minority.

In response to TikTok being banned from government devices, he said he did not believe any social media apps should be on official phones.

On Thursday, Parliament said it would remove TikTok from all phones issued by the House of Commons and House of Lords, and block it from Wi-Fi networks, following a ban on Government devices last week.


https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-chief-admits-chinese-parent-184832815.html

Tinot7

Suketi deme la nak blok ke dak..

krustykrab

Congressmen us dh jd bahan ketawa umah us sendiri . Umah us sendiri pun dh melekat dgn tiktok, kalau korg ban tiktok ...nmpknya korg cari pasal dgn rakyat korg sendiri

MatDeghem

ly on global interoperability, and we have employees in China, so yes, the Chinese engineers do have access to global data.”

global data. google , facebook, instagram, twitter pun sama has access to global data.

beza nya mereka own by america and tiktok by china.

Dan rakyaat cina tak gunakan tiktok...

MatDeghem

krustykrab replied at 26-3-2023 06:07 AM
Congressmen us dh jd bahan ketawa umah us sendiri . Umah us sendiri pun dh melekat dgn tiktok,  ...

  

Decaffeinated

Mr Chew, who is based in Singapore, told members of Congress that he had not spoken to a Chinese government official since taking charge two years ago

So, Mr Chew ni warga PRC ka Singapork I wonder... kot2 Ipoh mali who knows

Decaffeinated

MatDeghem replied at 26-3-2023 07:25 AM

Ha ha ha... dia buat muka lepas dengar first question I could almost hear what he was thinking

Nurdianah

Terang lagi bersuluh semua kompani kat china mesti ada connection with CCP....in this case Bytedance!

Perwira2022

Sikap US terhadap tiktok ni sama berat sebelah & hipokrit seperti PH.... Iaitu dia buat takpe, orang lain buat tak boleh.

juboqhang

China sendiri pun takde Tiktok.. knp melalak nak jugak..

krustykrab

MatDeghem

Decaffeinated replied at 26-3-2023 07:59 AM
So, Mr Chew ni warga PRC ka Singapork I wonder... kot2 Ipoh mali who knows

  

mojarean_X

krustykrab replied at 26-3-2023 09:00 AM

krustykrab

mojarean_X

Perwira2022 replied at 26-3-2023 08:18 AM
Sikap US terhadap tiktok ni sama berat sebelah & hipokrit seperti PH.... Iaitu dia buat takpe, orang ...

Contoh?....

green~tea

Ban je lahhhhhh tiktok tu... china pun selamba ban FB & Whatsapp selama ni pun takde pun US or memana negara nak bising

Dwdrum

Mahu access mana mana socmed/websitr guna saja 2nd phone...
Tempat kerja aku sudah lama banned social media access guna harta company...
Sebab itu sehingga sekarang aku  kena scam... Pernah 1 kali CC 9 years dulu... Ada yang swipe my card aaround 1000 miles away tetapi tidak banyak dan bank cover tudak perlu bayar apa apa pun.... Terus cancelled CC tersebut ...

sonic-bertaik

Yg sokong TikTok dlm ni nampak sangat bahlol pasal modus operandi CCP ni. Rakyat depa takde Tiktok sebab senang depa kontrol la bangang! Anak korang pun sama la jadi BANGKAI TAK BERNYAWA!!! Tak reti bergaul.. jd kera sumbang asyik mengadap tengok benda2 tak berfaedah!

Tepok laaaa.. parents bahlol sekor2.

cranell

Meta tak puas hati la ramai switch pegi TT dari apps diorang. Google sampai buat youtube short untuk lawan TT.

Privacy? CCP? tu semua alasan je nak ban TT dari US. Pasal dibelakang senator tu big tech dah lobi.

Perwira2022

mojarean_X replied at 26-3-2023 09:13 AM
Contoh?....

Twitter tempat budak2 PH, tak kena kacau
Tiktok ramai budak PN, kena kacau