Evening Edition: Is Americans' TikTok Data Secure? New Reports Suggest Maybe Not

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before Congress, he assured lawmakers with national security concerns that "American data is stored on American soil" and not in China. Recently, news broke revealing that some creators' personal and financial data was indeed being stored on servers in China, where the Chinese Communist Party could access it. Now, senators and representatives on Capitol Hill remain skeptical of the national security risks posed by TikTok and are weighing whether its CEO committed perjury in his hearing testimony. Eben Brown speaks to Fox Business' Grady Trimble about the contradictions in Chew's testimony, whether the company is being completely forthcoming about how they manage user data, and the feasibility of a national TikTok ban. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Janice Dean.
0:01.0	I'm David Asman.
0:02.0	I'm Dana Perino, and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:05.0	Thursday, June 29, 2023, I'm Evan Brown.
0:12.8	We were once told by TikTok's chief executive that US user data was safe from exposure to
0:18.4	the Chinese Communist Party despite TikTok's owners being based in the People's Republic
0:23.6	of China that Americans' data wasn't stored in the People's Republic of China.
0:29.7	But that might not have been the whole truth.
0:32.4	We went from no US user data is stored anywhere but Singapore and the US to, well, some
0:39.0	creator data is stored in China.
0:42.2	And then it just begs the question, are they being completely forthcoming?
0:46.8	This is the Fox News rundown Evening Edition.
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0:57.0	I'm Ben Dominech, Fox News contributor and editor of the transom.com daily newsletter.
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1:06.2	Subscribe and listen now by going to FoxNewsPodcasts.com.
1:09.8	TikTok seems to be truly the world's most favorite app.
1:13.8	Nobody gets anything done on TikTok.
1:16.4	But they do seem to pass the time by scrolling through humorous or maybe sometimes informative
1:21.2	short videos on the surface.
1:22.9	It may appear to be harmless if sometimes juvenile.
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