- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-03-22T16:55:00
The fate of popular social media app TikTok in the United States could hinge on the testimony of Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday.
Chew will speak before Congress for the first time amid a renewed push to block the app in the United States over concerns its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance could be compelled to share data on U.S. users with Chinese authorities. The Biden administration recently issued ByteDance an ultimatum: sell TikTok or face a nationwide ban.
A large part of Chew’s testimony, published by the House committee in advance of the hearing, will be focused on the company’s efforts to secure the data of U.S. users. Chew will go in detail on “Project Texas,” the initiative at TikTok “dedicated to safeguarding both U.S. user data and U.S. national security interests,” according to his testimony.
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