In over five hours of testimony, CEO Shou Zi Chew repeatedly denies the app shares data or has connections with China's Communist Party and argues the platform is doing everything to ensure safety for its 150 million American users.
ByteDance employees accessed the data as part of an unsuccessful effort to investigate leaks of company information earlier this year, the company said.
Nearly 20 US states have already banned TikTok after Republicans claimed its ownership by Chinese firm ByteDance made it unsafe for Americans.
TikTok owner ByteDance had earlier said that it had no imminent plans for an initial public offering (IPO), as Chinese regulators have stepped up their scrutiny of the tech sector in recent months
An Indian tax intelligence unit in mid-March ordered HSBC and Citibank in Mumbai to freeze bank accounts of ByteDance India as it probed some of the unit's financial dealings, a move the company is challenging in a Mumbai court.
DJI, which has become a symbol of Chinese innovation since it was founded in 2006, is one of dozens of companies caught in the crossfire of trade and diplomatic hostilities between Washington and Beijing, like Huawei and Bytedance.
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the short video app TikTok, agreed to the settlement after more than a year of litigation.
The investigation comes as Italy announced it had temporarily blocked access to TikTok for users whose age could not be proved definitively.
Talks between TikTok and US negotiators will resume even after the deadline passes.
The move comes after a federal court in Pennsylvania blocked the Trump administration from carrying out the ban, which had been ordered on claims TikTok posed a national security threat.
TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance files petition with US court to delay deadline set by Trump administration for it to restructure ownership in the country, saying it needs more clarity on whether its proposed solutions were acceptable to Washington.
The ban on new downloads of TikTok was delayed once by the government. A more comprehensive ban is scheduled for November.
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