Courts blocked the effort, and President Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s orders but ordered an in-depth study of the issue. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump and his administration sought to force ByteDance to sell off its U.S. government may ban the application if its Chinese owners don’t sell its stake but added, “we have legitimate national security concerns with respect to data integrity that we need to observe.” Kirby also could not confirm that the administration sent TikTok a letter warning that the U.S. White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby declined to comment when asked Thursday to address the Chinese foreign ministry's comments about TikTok, citing the review being conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment. There’s no evidence that TikTok has turned over such data, but fears abound due to the vast amount of user data it, like other social media companies, collects.Ĭoncerns around TikTok were heightened in December when ByteDance said it fired four employees who accessed data on two journalists from Buzzfeed News and The Financial Times while attempting to track down the source of a leaked report about the company.
Both the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance could share TikTok user data - such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers - with China’s authoritarian government.Ī law implemented by China in 2017 requires companies to give the government any personal data relevant to the country’s national security.
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