Pentagon uses China-owned tutoring company that could weaponize military data, GOP lawmakers say

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are trying to prohibit the DOD from using a 'Chinese-owned' tutoring service for U.S. military members and their families.

"There is no reason the Pentagon should be paying a Chinese-owned service that collects the data of our service members and their families," Cotton said in a statement. "There are plenty of American companies that offer tutoring services and aren’t subject to the Chinese government." 

The legislation, called the Ban Chinese Communist Party Access to U.S. Military Students Act, says the platform collects location data, internet protocol addresses and contents of the tutoring sessions and alleges the U.S. is "paying to expose the private information of members of the United States Armed Forces and their children to the Chinese Communist Party."