Two senators call for FTC probe into TikTok over U.S. data access
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 6, 2022
WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee chair and top Republican have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance due to "repeated misrepresentations" over its handling of U.S. data.
The request on Tuesday from Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Republican Marco Rubio followed a Buzzfeed report saying the short video app permitted TikTok engineers . . .