WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and the panel’s top Republican on Tuesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate social media app TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance.
The request from Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican, followed reports that the company had repeatedly allowed TikTok engineers and executives in China to access private data of American users, despite repeated claims to lawmakers and users that the data was protected .
TikTok and the FTC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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