Cybersecurity
Apple And TikTok Faulted by Republican Senator Over China Ties
- Josh Hawley leads Senate subcommittee hearing on data security
- Comments come as TikTok faces U.S. national security review
Josh Hawley speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on May 1, 2019.
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Apple Inc. and the Chinese-owned music-video app TikTok are threats to international data security because of their business ties to China, a key Republican senator warned.
“With Apple and TikTok, we see two sides of the same coin when it comes to data security: the danger of Chinese tech platforms’ entry into the U.S. market, and the danger of American tech companies’ operations in China,” Missouri lawmaker Josh Hawley told a hearing he led on big data and China Tuesday.