In this photo illustration the Chinese video-sharing social networking service company TikTok logo seen displayed on a smartphone with an economic stock exchange index graph in the background.
Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) The ongoing concerns about TikTok’s use of U.S. user data and its potential threat to national security were at the center of a Senate hearing Wednesday.TikTok says it’s not committed to stopping flows of U.S.
user data to China as the company’s chief operating officer testified that the social media company would work with the federal government to ease concerns about national security, CNN reported Wednesday.RELATED: Trump signs executive order banning TikTok and WeChat ‘transactions’ in 45 daysChief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas explained during her testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday that the social media giant’s Chinese employees can't access U.S.
user data. She added that TikTok wouldn’t provide that sensitive information to China, CNN reported.But Pappas did not say whether ByteDance, a company based in China that launched TikTok in 2016, would hold on to U.S.