TECH CRUNCH - In its first-ever Congressional hearing, TikTok successfully dodged questions about its plans to do with the biometric data its privacy policy permits it to collect on the app's US users. The hearing was meant to be focused on social media's detrimental impacts on children and teens but often expanded into broader areas of concern related, as the lawmakers dug into the business models, internal research, and policies being made at Snap, TikTok, and YouTube.