Rubio, a Florida Republican, explained that the algorithm at the root of TikTok is owned by the company ByteDance, where it must remain under Chinese law. Because that algorithm relies upon access to the data, he says engineers in China will continue to have access to it no ...
Hong Kong— The U.S. and Canada both issued orders this weekbanning the use of TikTokon government-issued mobile devices amid growing privacy and cybersecurity concerns about the Chinese-owned video-sharing app. TikTok, owned by the larger tech company Bytedance, has long maintained that it doe...
The United States is ratcheting up national security concerns about TikTok, mandating that all federal employees delete the Chinese-owned social media app from government-issued mobile phones.
Congress, the White House, U.S. armed forces and more than half of U.S. states had already banned TikTok amid concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, would give user data — such as browsing history and location — to the Chinese government, or push propaganda and misinformation on ...
For TikTok, one possible CFIUS concern will be whether the Chinese government has any access to data from U.S. users, or influence or control over censorship decisions. CFIUS may want to see evidence that TikTok’s U.S. operations are run independently from ByteDance, or that the Chinese go...
But the American government sees a credible threat to its national security. And rightfully so. TikTok is already being used by the Chinese government to extend its foreign influence in the West. It’s high time the U.S. did something about it, after mostly avoiding the probl...
It is held on a different server than TikTok, which researchers have attributed to ByteDance complying with internet regulations by the Chinese government. Douyin is available via the web. When we reviewed the website, we found that it was fully in Chinese and had an infrastructure similar to ...
its Chinese ownership has also made it controversial because of concerns that the Chinese government could use it for propaganda purposes and to collect data on users. In April 2024, American lawmakers passed legislation, signed by President Biden, that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless its ...
TikTok had more than 200 million users in India at the time. Taiwan Like the US, Taiwan has enforced a ban on TikTok from all public sector devices. The app could be used by the Chinese government to conduct "cognitive warfare" against Taiwan, authorities said. ...
There have been many attempts by the U.S. government to try and ban TikTok, dating back to the Trump Administration. Those supporting the ban argue that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, should be banned or sold off as its ownership of a Chinese company makes ...