FILE PHOTO: China's flags are seen near a TikTok logo in this illustration picture taken July 16, 2020. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgian federal government employees will no longer be allowed to use the Chinese-owned video app TikTok on their work phone...
Montana’s law banning TikTok in the state has been blocked while a legal challenge to the law moves through the courts, a federal judge ruled.
If the federal government has their own laws in place to ban the app, then federal judges would likely lean more in favor of the federal law, rather than the state. BUT... that's my own hot take. The bottom line is, if TikTok is banned, it likely means it will be removed from ...
TikTok has argued that the potential ban would be a "radical departure" from the U.S. supporting an open internet, while setting a "dangerous precedent." Meanwhile, U.S. lawmakers and security experts stress that the Chinese government could tap TikTok's trove of personal data from millions ...
TikTok has repeatedly denied that it shares any data with the Chinese government, and though some are concerned with privacy, others say bans on social media platforms limit the right to freedom of speech. The ACLU was quick to criticize the ban at its original passing, and wrote that the ...
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, has stated it has no plans to sell TikTok, leaving the app's legal appeal -- focused on US guarantees for free speech -- as its only option for survival. A ban would likely provoke a strong response from the Chinese government and further strain US-Ch...
President Joe Biden has revoked Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat, but at the same time ordered broader investigations into apps that could pose a risk to U.S. data privacy or national security.
Forget about the TikTok ban; now the U.S. might ban DJI TikTok sued by Utah over alleged child addiction harm This also isn’t the first instance of TikTok hogging attention for the wrong reasons. Last month, a couple of former TikTok content moderators filed alawsuitagainst the co...
WHITE HOUSE TO TARGET MORE CHINESE APPS FOLLOWING TIKTOK, WECHAT CRACKDOWNS: NAVARRO Both the lawsuit and motion for injunction state that the government has offered no clear evidence proving TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, poses a threat to U.S. national security. ...
TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER--AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE THE ONE TO PUT A STOP TO ITRenke, MarianaJournal of Law, Technology & Policy