Owing to the border dispute in June, the platform has been banned inIndia. The U.S. is also among the first countries to impose an outright ban on TikTok, while there are other countries around the world deliberating likewise measures. Japan has also been considering imposing a ban on the ...
This goes to show that even a fun, lighthearted app like TikTok can create security issues. If you want to keep using the app, there's not much you can do about the potential sending of your data to China. But you can be aware that the videos you share may not be as harmless as ...
The platform now known as TikTok was originally two separate apps: Musical.ly and Douyin. The Chinese company ByteDance first launched Douyin for the Chinese market in 2016. It was marketed as a photo and video-sharing platform. It quickly gained popularity in China, where the Chinese government...
Washington— Arenewed push targeting TikTokis gaining momentum on Capitol Hill, where several previous efforts to ban the widely popular video-sharing app over concerns about its parent company's ties to China have stalled in the past. Owned by the China-based company ByteDance, TikTok is one o...
There are things companies like ByteDance, which owns TikTok, can do to address the concerns. For years, ByteDance has vowed to store and process US data only in the US, but there are still reports that company engineers in China are inappropriately accessing US user data. “There are a fe...
However, the TikTok attack is a horse of a different color. The Chinese company ByteDance owns TikTok, which has raised national security concerns over whether the app might be sending U.S. user data to China. TikTok says it does not do that, nor would it comply with requests. However, ...
But unlike TikTok, Bilibili has a user base intensely loyal to its platform and provides creators with more reliable view counts than other Chinese user-generated content platforms. With so much of Chinese culture run by norms of "enforced normalcy," Bilibili is the rare platform where sarcasm,...
of Representatives passed a bill on March 13 that, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, would initiate anationwide ban of TikTokif its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake. Lawmakers expressed concerns that the company’s ownership structure is a security threat to the ...
data supposedly quarantined in the U.S. was accessed from China. While these episodes are deeply troubling, to say they make TikTok, in the words of Marco Rubio, "a CCP-puppet company" strains plausibility. Experts don't all agree, for instance, about the degree of the Chinese government...
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