TikTok’s security boss makes his case. Carefully.
Roland Cloutier, the global chief security officer for ByteDance, says he still doesn’t understand why the U.S. government has labeled TikTok as a national security threat. The video-sharing social media company, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court Monday challenging a White House executive order that effectively will ban the app unless TikTok is sold by Nov. 12. Then, news broke Thursday that TikTok chief executive Kevin Mayer had resigned, three months after he was hired, amid reports that he’d been excluded from acquisition talks. U.S. officials have said that commercial apps with roots in China, like TikTok, present a risk to national security by enabling the Chinese Communist Party to sweep up Americans’ personal and location data. Researchers, meanwhile, have suggested that TikTok collects much of the same information as other social media apps. The dispute resembles the 2018 debate over Kaspersky Lab, in which the […]
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