Senators to launch bill that will help ban or prohibit foreign technology like TikTok

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday helium is introducing a wide bipartisan measure this week that volition outline an attack to banning oregon prohibiting overseas technology, similar the fashionable video-sharing app TikTok.

TikTok is simply a short-form video level that is utilized by much than 100 cardinal Americans. Data privateness concerns person been swirling astir the app due to the fact that of its genitor institution ByteDance, which is based successful China and privately held.

Warner said helium is moving connected the measure with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., adding that helium is acrophobic implicit the benignant of contented that Americans are seeing connected TikTok.

"They are taking information from Americans, not keeping it safe, but what worries maine much with TikTok is that this tin beryllium a propaganda tool," helium told "Fox News Sunday."

Warner's authorities comes aft U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to beforehand a bill that would assistance President Joe Biden the authorization to prohibition TikTok. The measure passed the Republican-controlled committee 24-16 on enactment lines, with unanimous GOP enactment and nary Democratic votes.

But adjacent with the authorities that came earlier the committee last week, lawmakers person a agelong mode to spell earlier immoderate existent prohibition could beryllium implemented.

Assuming this measure gets done the Republican-controlled House, the Democratic-majority Senate would person to walk immoderate mentation of it, which volition beryllium a situation based connected the absorption that has already been voiced by immoderate Democrats. If it did walk the Senate, Biden would inactive request to determine whether to veto it oregon motion it.

TikTok is nary alien to challenges from U.S. officials, arsenic erstwhile President Donald Trump declared his volition to ban the app by enforcement enactment successful 2020. Congress banned TikTok from authorities devices arsenic portion of a bipartisan spending bill in December, several governors person removed the app from authorities machine networks —including astatine nationalist universities — and Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., renewed calls for a implicit nationwide prohibition successful January.