Republican Senator Marco Rubio has asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to open a Justice Department investigation into whether TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew committed perjury in his recent congressional testimony on the company’s handling of American users’ data. “We now know that TikTok stored sensitive information about its American users in China—a fact that Chew denied under oath,” Rubio, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote to Garland on Wednesday. The letter, shared exclusively with Forbes, cites a recent Forbes investigation that revealed that TikTok has stored the most sensitive financial information of its biggest American and European stars—including those in the TikTok Creator Fund—on servers in China, where it’s been accessible to employees. But he emphasized that American data was stored outside of China. “Storage has always been in Virginia and Singapore, the physical servers,” he explained.

Source: Forbes June 01, 2023 18:03 UTC