TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew today told Congress that Chinese parent company ByteDance may still have access to U.S. user data.
Chew made the comments as he testified for the first time before U.S. Congress today as the prospect of a national ban on the popular Chinese-owned app looms large.
Chew answered that China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance may still have access to some U.S. data from the app. However, he said this would no longer be the case once “Project Texas” is complete. Chew also denied it shares U.S. data with the Chinese Communist Party , stating that TikTok is a “private business.”
Little is known about how Chew operates in TikTok or even how much power he truly holds at the company as its CEO. Until now, chief operating officer Vanessa Pappas has been the public face of TikTok and was questioned by Congress last September about U.S. data flows to China.
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