by Jon Michael Raasch at Daily Mail
- Tutor.com is owned by Primavera Holdings Limited, a financial firm owned by Chinese nationals that operates in Hong Kong, China
- The tutoring website offers services to U.S. military members and school kids
- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has previously asked Pentagon leadership to further investigate the Department of Defense’s relationship with the tutoring service
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton is demanding the Pentagon disclose information on its contract with a Chinese-owned tutoring company that has access to U.S. military family data.
Tutor.com, a popular tutoring website, is owned by Primavera Holdings Limited, a firm run by Chinese nationals that also holds stakes in TikTok parent company ByteDance and e-commerce giant Alibaba.
The site offers tutoring services to the U.S. military and school districts around the country.
However, a Chinese-owned company should not have access to the sensitive data of U.S. school kids and military families, according to Cotton.
‘The Department of Defense needs to explain why a Chinese-owned company has easy access to the data to the military families,’ Cotton told DailyMail.com in a statement.
‘The same goes for any school district that is utilizing tutor.com.’…
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