Like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and other tech honchos before him, TikTok’s Shou Chew faced aggressive questioning in his first testimony before Congress on Thursday.
Lawmakers’ criticisms of technology platforms have been bubbling over currently typically, but particularly in relation to the Chinese-owned social video platform. Amid calls to ban the app, Chew, TikTok’s chief executive officer, sat in the new seat because the House Energy and Commerce Committee grilled him concerning the data it collects from American users — of a couple of billion users worldwide, 150 million or more are within the U.S. — who has access and the way it would protect that.
However it wasn’t an easy fact-finding inquiry. The corporate, which is owned by...
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