US says moving with ‘urgency’ to protect Americans’ data as TikTok security concerns persist
- Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said her department is ‘hiring dozens of people’ to ‘look for any companies that may pose undue security risk to our data’
- Concerns about TikTok have sparked new efforts in US Congress to boost powers to address it or potentially ban the popular app
The Biden administration outlined efforts this week to address growing US national security concerns on foreign companies’ handling of Americans’ data.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said at a US Senate hearing the department is working “to secure our communications and technology networks and we are right now in the process of hiring a team to do monitoring, investigation and enforcement.”
Raimondo said after the hearing “we’re hiring dozens of people” to “look for any companies that may pose undue security risk to our networks or to our data.”
On Wednesday, Biden administration agencies briefed senators in a previously unreported closed session on “Foreign adversaries exploitation of America’s data from social media platforms, data brokers and other companies,” according to Republican Senator Jerry Moran.