A pacesetter of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission stated he has requested Apple and Google to take away TikTok from their app shops over knowledge safety issues. Pictured right here is the TikTok obtain web page on an Apple iPhone on August 7, 2020.
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WASHINGTON — A extremely anticipated bipartisan Senate bill to present the president the authority to answer threats posed by TikTok and corporations prefer it will be unveiled Tuesday afternoon by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, a committee spokeswoman instructed CNBC.
The Virginia Democrat will maintain a three p.m. ET press convention with South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune, the lead co-sponsor of the laws.
The exact textual content of the laws has but to be launched, however Warner advised this previous weekend that the bill will not be restricted merely to reining in TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech large ByteDance.
“In terms of foreign technology coming into America, we’ve got to have a systemic approach to make sure we can ban or prohibit it when necessary,” Warner stated on Fox News Sunday.
“TikTok is one of the potentials,” that might be focused by the bill, Warner stated. “They are taking data from Americans, not keeping it safe.”
“But what worries me more with TikTok is that this could be a propaganda tool. The kind of videos you see would promote ideological issues,” he added.
Warner’s bill comes practically every week after the House Foreign Affairs Committee superior a Republican-sponsored bill that goals to do a lot of the identical factor.
The House laws handed the GOP-controlled committee 24-16 alongside occasion traces, with unanimous GOP help and no Democratic votes.
Dubbed the Deterring America’s Technological Adversaries, or DATA, Act, the House bill mandates that the president impose broad sanctions on firms based mostly in or managed by China that have interaction within the switch of the “sensitive personal data” of Americans to entities or people based mostly in, or managed by, China.
And whereas the DATA Act has superior past its committee of jurisdiction, it was unclear Monday when, or if, it might obtain a vote within the full House.
CNBC’s Mary Catherine Wellons contributed reporting to this story.