TikTok Tells US Senators It’s Working on Data-Sharing Practices

Chinese-owned app aims to strengthen data security, CEO says
Letter sent to senators who said TikTok monitors US citizens

Shou Zi Chew — Shou Zi Chew
Photographer: Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg

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By Todd Shields and Jennifer Jacobs

July 1, 2022 at 3:49 PM UTC

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Video app TikTok Inc., in a letter to nine US senators who accused it of monitoring US citizens, said it is working to meet concerns over its data-sharing practices.

The Chinese-owned app aims “to strengthen data security around US user data,” TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew said in the June 30 letter obtained by Bloomberg News. The process involves work with Oracle Corp. and Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp., Chew said.