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Chew will testify before the committee on March 23, which will
be his first appearance before a Congressional committee,
McMorris Rodgers said in a statement.
The news comes as the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to
hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of
TikTok in the United States over national security concerns.
"ByteDance-owned TikTok has knowingly allowed the ability for
the Chinese Communist Party to access American user data,"
McMorris Rodgers said, adding that Americans deserve to know how
these actions impact their privacy and data security.
TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
TikTok said on Friday "calls for total bans of TikTok take a
piecemeal approach to national security and a piecemeal approach
to broad industry issues like data security, privacy, and online
harms".
McMorris Rodgers and other Republican lawmakers have demanded
more information from TikTok, on its impact on young people amid
concerns about harmful content and potential sexual exploitation
of minors on the platform, the statement said.
TikTok has previously said it is focused on the safety of
younger users and limits features by age.
(Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Ed
Osmond and Alison Williams)
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