WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The head of TikTok was requested to testify on Capitol Hill in a surprise announcement on Monday amid serious allegations near data mining by the Chinese social media app.

The company's top official Shou Zi Chew will face a grilling by assembly members on March 23 about TikTok's privacy and data confidence practices, its impact on users and its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.

CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 20: The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok organization on December 20, 2022 in Culver City, California. Congress is pushing legislation to ban the celebrated Chinese-owned social media app from most government device

Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, Chairman of the U.S. Intelligence Committee, has told FOX 5 he has very concerns about the content young people are viewing on the site.

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"My worries on TikTok are twofold: one, the amount of data populate collected disproportionally about our kids. And while TikTok has said time and alongside, 'Oh, nobody in China has access to that data,' that is just not the case," says Sen. Warner.

Peter Shankman, a technology expert at BluShark Digital, tells FOX 5 he's so engaged about China mining data off smartphones that he no longer has the TikTok app on his personal phone.

"There are naively too many unknowns with TikTok to keep it on my phone," he says. "I use it on a safe arranged throwaway that I have that's not connected to anything. It doesn't go on my Wi-Fi network. I have it so I can expect it but for me? To keep it on the main arranged that I use 24/7, there are too many privacy issues."

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Recently, state governments such as Maryland and Virginia banned the TikTok app from all state-owned devices.

But, is Congress up to the job? Previous hearings into social consider apps have shown lawmakers have a knowledge gap in keeping up with social consider apps. 

Young users of TikTok tell FOX 5 that Congress experiences to do its homework on TikTok if it's thinking in banning the app.

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A spokesperson for TikTok said in a statement, "We hope that by sharing details of our comprehensive plans with the full committee, Congress can take a more deliberative approach to the publishes at hand."