Code · BILL · 118th Congress · H.R. 4927 (Introduced in House) — To require ByteDance to divest itself of certain assets, and to require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Un... · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Findings

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Congress makes the following findings: TikTok engages in political censorship, including related to awareness of Uighur Muslim internment camps in China. The U.S. government fined TikTok $5.7 million for illegally collecting children’s data. TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has agreed to pay $92 million in a settlement to U.S. users who are part of a class-action lawsuit alleging that the video-sharing app failed to get their consent to collect data in violation of a strict Illinois biometric privacy law.

Chinese companies, such as TikTok, have no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party no if officials request user data. The presence of Chinese surveillance in applications such as TikTok raises U.S. national security concerns.