This results from a mulit-year investigation into their ad practices, including profiling and predicting shopper behavior.
A note from the country’s house speaker warned that TikTok posed a security risk of data being accessed by the Chinese government.
At the same time, they are raising privacy advocate concerns about their utilizing data transferred via network operators, which is usually untouched.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.