TikTok is at the centre of a geopolitical and economic battle between the US and China over tech leadership and national security. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – Last week, TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew met with several influential think tanks and public interest groups in Washington, sharing details on how his company plans to prevent data on American users from ever leaving the United States. And the company’s lobbyists swarmed the offices of lawmakers who have introduced bills to ban the app, telling them that TikTok can be trusted to protect the information.
“We have shifted our approach,” said Mr Erich Andersen, general counsel of ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok. He said that the company had been “heads down” in private conversations with a committee led by the Biden administration to review foreign investments in U.S. businesses but that then the government put the negotiations “on pause“.
Under the proposal, called Project Texas, TikTok would remain owned by ByteDance. But it would take a number of steps that it said would prevent the Chinese government from having access to data on US users and offer the US government oversight of the platform. Some of those steps have been put in place since October.
TikTok’s more aggressive lobbying stance will not necessarily yield different results. The company has few allies in Washington. The most powerful tech lobbying groups, like the Chamber of Progress and TechNet, prefer to represent US companies and have policies against representing Chinese companies. In fact, many big tech companies, like Meta, have argued that TikTok poses a security threat.
Yet the growing pressure on the company has left it few options other than changing its approach, many outside experts say. “It seemed like a serious effort,” said Mr Matt Perault, the director of the Center on Technology Policy at the University of North Carolina, who attended a briefing and whose center receives funding from TikTok.
A spokesperson for TikTok said the company’s lobbyists had a hard time scheduling meetings with lawmakers who were critical of the company in TV appearances.
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