Republican senators pen letter to Treasury secretary over TikTok's data practices

Six Republican U.S. senators wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asking about TikTok’s data processing practices, MediaPost reports. Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Mike Braun, R-Ind., Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Todd Young, R-Ind., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., claimed “serious (national) security risks,” are posed by parent company ByteDance’s China-based employees being able to access private U.S. user data, which came to light after a report by BuzzFeed News. Following the report, TikTok said all U.S. user data would be stored on Oracle servers.