V Pappas, TikTok’s most senior operations executive, says it could survive a US ban, and questions the point of forcing Chinese investors to divest shares.
V Pappas, the Australian-born chief operating officer at TikTok, facing Congressional questions.said both the divestiture issue and calls for a ban would miss an industry-wide chance to address the ongoing problems of safeguarding users’ data.
“If there were to be a ban on TikTok, it would be incredibly worrying that a government that wants to uphold freedom of speech is looking to cut those voices off from the rest of the world.” TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has insisted it stores customer data in the countries where it originates, and that it would never share customer data with Chinese officials, even if asked.that Chinese officials can approach and compel individuals and businesses to open up their databases under strengthening intelligence laws in China, and that ByteDance, though domiciled in the Cayman Islands, includes shareholders who are connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
V Pappas pointed to the $US1.5 billion TikTok has spent on ringfencing and securing local consumer data onshore in the US, as well as vetting the recommendation algorithms so that outside parties might not be able to influence content-choice for its 1 billion monthly active users.
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