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"It is a national security threat," Rep. McMorris Rodgers said of TikTok. "It united Republicans and Democrats on the committee ... to take action."

Congresswoman Lori Trahan was among the House lawmakers who questioned TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about data security concerns.

U.S. lawmakers have grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about data security and harmful content, with some pushing to ban the popular short-video app nationwide. Chew, a native of Singapore, told the lawmakers that TikTok prioritizes user safety as he sought to avert a U.S. ban on the app by downplaying its ties to China.

>> can you say with 100% certainty bytedance or tiktok can target americans with similar techniques? >> i disagree with characterization it is spying, it was an internal investigation. >> can you do surveillance of other americans? >> we will protect u.s. user data. it is commitment we have given to the committee. >> do they have these same things over there? do they have these challenges? >> im not sure. here is the problem, with data comes power, they can make you believe things that are not t...

Claims control over over data globally. theres also the weakness of us data security and data protections, which means that members of congress and tech ceo cant really be sure tech ceos cant really can really be very flexible in terms of what actually they share with members of congress given our current legal environment. yeah i mean, flat out, though, for these members of congress hard to just take his word for it. on the other hand, though, professor, is there anything that he could have sai...

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On Thursday, a ransomware group published data apparently stolen from Tri Counties Bank, which suffered an outage to its ATM network last month.

Amid calls to ban TikTok in the U.S., there are also concerns about what information other companies are collecting about you online.