Beijing-based app developer #ByteDance has reportedly abandoned its plans to list in the New York market. The company owns the wildly popular video sharing platform #TikTok.

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A new report by Buzzfeed claims that China-based employees working for #ByteDance have "repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about US TikTok users." #TikTok has said previously that it does not share user information with the Chinese regime, and that they have a "world-renowned U.S.-based security team that handles access."

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A former executive at #ByteDance has alleged in a lawsuit filed against the tech company that Chinese regime officials had unfettered access to the company’s data when he worked there, including data stored in the United States. https://www.ntd.com/fired-bytedance-exec-claims-in-lawsuit-that-china-has-open-access-to-us-user-data_919498.html

Members of Congress held a briefing about a bill that would require #TikTok to divest from its #China-based parent company #ByteDance, or otherwise be banned from U.S. app stores. Main concerns include the Chinese regime’s access to user data and curating of content for Americans.
https://www.ntd.com/tiktok-bill-gaining-bipartisan-support-ahead-of-house-vote_979114.html

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would require #TikTok’s Chinese parent company #ByteDance to divest from the app or have it face a ban in the United States. A supporter of the bill, Rep. #RalphNorman (R-S.C.), told NTD he voted in its favor because he wants “freedom” and not “indoctrination”—while also highlighting the serious national security risks posed by the app in terms of Americans’ personal data ending up in the hands of #China’s communist regime.
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#WhiteHouse spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said at a press briefing in Washington that the Biden administration does not want to have to introduce a ban on #TikTok, but rather seeks its divestment from its Chinese parent company, #ByteDance. https://www.ntd.com/white-house-tiktok-legislation-not-about-banning-platform-as-a-number-of-interested-buyers-emerging_988615.html

#TikTok’s Beijing-based owner #ByteDance denied media reports of selling the platform as the company faces a mandate to either divest the firm or be banned from the United States.
https://www.ntd.com/bytedance-says-it-has-no-plan-to-sell-tiktok-as-us-ban-looms_988968.html

#ErichAndersen, general counsel for #TikTok and Chinese parent company #ByteDance, will step down from that role in June to focus on fighting efforts to force a sale of the video app in the U.S..
https://www.ntd.com/tiktok-general-counsel-to-move-to-new-role-focused-on-fighting-us-sale_989235.html

President Joe #Biden has signed a law that will force #TikTok’s parent company, #ByteDance, to sell the app or face its being banned in the United States. NTD spoke with Andrew Selepak, a social media professor from the University of Florida, about what these measures would look like in practice. https://www.ntd.com/legal-challenge-to-tiktok-ban-could-take-years-social-media-professor_989810.html

#TikTok filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over a new law that requires the Chinese-owned app to divest from its parent company #ByteDance, or face a ban in the United States. The bipartisan law seeks to tackle national security concerns surrounding the company’s ties with the Chinese regime.
https://www.ntd.com/ccp-absolutely-exerts-control-over-tiktok-china-expert_991433.html