lawmakers, Brandon Pugh, policy director of the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats, told MC over email. The firm would also tap Oracle to help establish “gateways” that safeguard Americans’ data from the prying eyes of Beijing.īut so long as there is “a direct or perceived connection to the Chinese Communist Party,” building a maze of corporate safeguards may never be enough to sway U.S. Known as Project Texas, the initiative would see TikTok hire an army of 2,500 employees to review the firm’s content moderation policies. It’s the company’s $1.5 billion plan to build a wall between the U.S. trust deficit by arguing the best way to prevent Chinese spying or propaganda isn’t a ban or a forced sale. Show me the money - More recently, TikTok has tried to defuse the D.C. journalists - a misfire that the Justice Department is now investigating, according to Forbes - and the continued souring of U.S.-China relations under President Joe Biden, a dynamic the infamous surveillance balloon sent into overdrive.
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That argument held a certain cachet during the Trump presidency, when there were fewer platform abuses to speak of and many dismissed the first effort to block it as an act of executive impulse.īut that defense has taken a hit amid a series of revelations showing that ByteDance employees harvested TikTok data to spy on U.S.
Trust problem - For years, TikTok has met its skeptics with a simple refrain: Trust us for what we do, not for where our owners are. makes it out to be.īut between a flurry of counter-TikTok bills on Capitol Hill, a new Justice Department investigation and the news that the White House is threatening to ban the app unless it separates from ByteDance, its China-based parent company, it’s just as likely the hearing will expose the steady erosion of most major arguments the app has levied in its own defense.
lawmakers.Ĭhew will be there to mount a last-ditch effort to convince the committee that the app isn’t the Communist Party Trojan horse that D.C.
IN THE HOT SEAT - TikTok’s long-awaited first date with Capitol Hill was never going to be love at first sight.īut when CEO Shou Zi Chew appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee later this week, it will become apparent that TikTok faces increasingly slim odds even to seal a loveless marriage with U.S. You’ll also receive daily policy news and other intelligence you need to act on the day’s biggest stories.ĭeputy national cyber director Camille Stewart Gloster, chief of the NSA’s cybersecurity directorate Morgan Adamski and CISA’s executive assistant director Eric Goldstein appear at an Aspen Institute event on the new National Cybersecurity Strategy. Want to receive this newsletter every weekday? Subscribe to POLITICO Pro. Register now for continuing updates and to be a part of this momentous and program-packed day! From the blockchain, to AI, and autonomous vehicles, technology is changing how power is exercised around the world, so who will write the rules? REGISTER HERE. GET READY FOR GLOBAL TECH DAY: Join POLITICO Live as we launch our first Global Tech Day alongside London Tech Week on Thursday, June 15.
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