Janik became a career diplomat in the State Department before moving to the Department of Homeland Security. In September, however, she left the government to immediately take up the position of TikTok’s trust and safety program
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...
HOW RISKY IS TIKTOK? It depends on who you ask. U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has expressed concerns that the Chinese government could gain access to user data. “I don’t use TikTok, and I would not advise anyone to do so,” Monaco said earlier this month at the policy...
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...
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 ...
Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect Americans? These questions appear to dominate the current thinking in the U.S. overwhether to ban ...
After the Chinese government's rule to limit playtime for minors, TikTok owner ByteDance implements the same limitation for Douyin users in China.Solen Feyissa from Unsplash According to theblog postof the company on Saturday, Sept.18, ByteDance has recently implemented a limitation f...
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...
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. ...
ban by divesting TikTok so that the app’s parent company would no longer possess ties to a “foreign adversary” like China. When Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi’s bill passed in the House of Representatives, the Department of Justice indicated that it would prefer to push for a divestiture ...