[Authored by Hannah Ng via The Epoch Times] (emphasis ours), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has requested tiktok appear before the Senate for a hearing over concerns that the China-based video-sharing app has access to U.S. data. The lawmaker together with eight colleagues, including Ted Cruz (R-Fla.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), raised the issue with the company in a June 27 letter ( pdf. ) that followed a BuzzFeed report published June 17 based on leaked audio from 80 TikTok internal meetings. BuzzFeed reported that 14 statements made by nine different TikTok employees indicated that “engineers in China had access to…