it in, and their capacity to then turn that around and use it to target audiences for information campaigns and other things, but also to have it for the future so that they can use it for a variety of means . (9) On December 16, 2022, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, explained that because the parent company of TikTok is a [PRC] company, the [CCP] is able to insist upon extracting the private data of a lot of TikTok users in this country, and also to shape the content of what goes on to TikTok as well to suit the interests of the Chinese leadership . (10) On August 2, 2020, then-Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, stated that PRC-based companies are feeding data directly to the Chinese Communist Party, their national security apparatus . (11) Public reporting has repeatedly confirmed statements made by the executive branch regarding the tight interlinkages between ByteDance, TikTok, and the CCP. (A) The Secretary of ByteDance’s CCP committee, Zhang Fuping, also serves as ByteDance’s Editor-in-Chief and Vice President and has vowed that the CCP committee would take the lead across all product lines and business lines , which include TikTok. (B) On May 30, 2023, public reporting revealed that TikTok has stored sensitive financial information, including the Social Security numbers and tax identifications of TikTok influencers and United States small businesses, on servers in China accessible by ByteDance employees. (C) On December 22, 2022, public reporting revealed that ByteDance employees accessed TikTok user data and IP addresses to monitor the physical locations of specific United States citizens. (D) On June 17, 2022, public reporting revealed that, according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, China-based employees of ByteDance repeatedly accessed nonpublic data about United States TikTok users, including the physical locations of specific United States citizens. (E) On January 20, 2023, public reporting revealed that TikTok and ByteDance employees