Whereas TikTok collects vast amounts of data on Americans, though the total extent of its collection is unknown: (1) On August 6, 2020, the President concluded that TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users and that TikTok’s ownership by ByteDance Ltd. enables the People’s Republic of China (referred to in this resolution as the PRC ) and Communist Party of China (referred to in this resolution as the CCP ) to gain access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information, potentially allowing the CCP to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage . (2) Outside reporting has confirmed the breadth of TikTok’s reach, concluding that its data collection practices extend to age, phone number, precise location, internet address, device used, phone contacts, social network connections, content of private messages sent through the application, and videos watched. (3) On November 11, 2022, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr explained that underneath [TikTok], it operates as a very sophisticated surveillance app. . He characterized it as a big risk for multiple reasons, including espionage. The risk posed by TikTok is exacerbated by the difficulty in assessing precisely which categories of data it collects. For example, outside researchers have found embedded vulnerabilities that allow the company to collect more data than the application’s privacy policy indicates. Whereas PRC law requires obligatory, secret disclosure of data controlled by Chinese companies at the PRC’s unilateral request: (1) Pursuant to PRC law, the PRC can require a company headquartered in the PRC to surrender all its data to the PRC, making it an espionage tool of the CCP. (2) The National Intelligence Law, passed in China in 2017, states that any organization must assist or cooperate with CCP intelligence work. Such assistance or cooperation must also remain secret at the PRC’s request. (3) The PRC’s 2014