Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are joining forces, introducing legislation to ban Chinese-owned mobile application TikTok from phones as questions continue about security risks.
with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., late last week "to ban social media platforms like TikTok if they are owned, wholly or in part, by adversarial foreign regimes."
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, questions witnesses during a Senate Armed Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 7, 2020. "Not for me. I mean, you're essentially, you know, negotiating with the Chinese Communist Party. And when it comes to that, I'm out," Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., told Fox Business. multiple times during his tenure as Missouri attorney general, agreed with King that data collection practices by the app are troubling.
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