Congressman Tim Walberg | Rep. Tim Walberg Official U.S House Headshot
Congressman Tim Walberg | Rep. Tim Walberg Official U.S House Headshot
Washington, D.C. -- June 8, 2023, Congressman Tim Walberg (MI-05) led 12 of his colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General Merrick Garland detailing compelling evidence suggesting that TikTok CEO, Shou Zi Chew, provided false testimony under oath while appearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to discuss the data-security practices of TikTok.
In the letter, Walberg and his colleagues write: “Chew stated under oath that the data of TikTok's American users was stored exclusively in the United States and Singapore, explicitly denying any storage of American user data in China... It has come to light, through a Forbes report on May 30, 2023, that TikTok collected sensitive data, such as Social Security numbers and tax identification numbers, from numerous TikTok users and businesses. Shockingly, this data was stored on servers located in China and was accessible to employees of ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company.”
The letter continues: "A June 2022 report detailing the recordings of at least eight TikTok employees revealed that in fact, U.S. employees often had to turn to their colleagues in China to determine how American user data was flowing, and China-based employees of ByteDance had repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about U.S. TikTok users."
The letter further goes on to request the Department of Justice to determine whether Chew committed perjury by falsely asserting that TikTok did not store any American user data in China.
You may read the full letter here.
Original source can be found here.
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