House Republicans Request TikTok Data-Sharing Documents

July 15, 2022 |Capitol Hill

TikTok must provide all documents and communications about its relationship with Chinese parent company ByteDance and its data-sharing practices (see 2206280064), House Republicans wrote the company Thursday, launching an investigation into TikTok’s handling of American user data. House Commerce Committee ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and House Oversight Committee ranking member James Comer, R-Ky., said: “Data collected by TikTok on U.S. users, such as browsing and search history, biometrics, location data, and other metadata, would be a massive national security risk in the hands of” Chinese Communist Party intelligence. TikTok didn’t comment.