‘It’s A Yes Or No Question!’: Bill Johnson Grills TikTok CEO Over App’s Capacity For Censorship

uwspstar March 23, 2023

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During a hearing, a member of Congress questions the CEO of TikTok, Mr. Chu, about the Citizen Lab report, which reveals that TikTok’s data collection using third-party trackers violates the GDPR and that the shared source code between TikTok in the United States and the CCP centered Owen is riddled with CCP censorship devices. The member accuses TikTok’s source code of being riddled with back doors and CCP censorship devices that allow explicit censorship and access to American data by the CCP. Mr. Chu is evasive in his answers and is unable to confirm whether he has directed his engineers to change the source code.

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在国会听证会上，议员质疑TikTok的CEO张一鸣，指控他们的代码中存在后门和中国共产党审查设备。议员引用了公民实验室的报告，该报告指出，TikTok的数据收集使用第三方追踪器与GDPR存在明显冲突，多个主题被封锁。此外，公民实验室的报告还指出，TikTok在美国和中共中心的源代码中存在许多相同的函数和类，只有硬编码值的微小变化。张一鸣未能直接回答是否指示TikTok的工程师修改源代码。此外，一些议员还质疑TikTok在美国用户数据方面存在潜在的安全风险。