TikTok's ties to China, however, is a cause for greater concern when collecting personal and behavioral data on U.S. consumers, he said. The Chinese government's population surveillance, for example, is to "another order of magnitude." "Internet access is heavily surveilled, filtered and cens...
2020, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/02/27/us-government-fined-app-now-known-tiktok-million-illegally-collecting-childrens-data/
as is data, and consumers have become part of the digital economy. The digitization of the Chinese economy is the basis for TikTok's success. This is why, even if the US and the West take the lead in some high-tech areas, it's very difficult for them to suppress the rise of China....
In Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, data is a fundamental component of the future world. Dataism holds that the universe consists of a stream of data and that the value of any phenomenon or entity lies i...
The social media app TikTok has been a focus for concerns that the Chinese government could access data on individual users. Whether the app poses a security risk remains unclear, but TikTok has now been banned from government ...
Every consumer in China can easily buy the necessities they or their families need online and get them quickly, even if those products are manufactured thousands of miles away. In the process, capital, manufacturing, and logistics are flowing rapidly, as is data, and consumers have become part...
“I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers.
However, the plaintiffs in the 2020 class-action suit argue that TikTok’s public statement was “carefully couched in the present tense and studiously avoids mentions of past practices.” They point out that TikTok never said that data was not transferred to China — only that it was ...
U.S. senators have already warned of the threat to national security TikTok may pose, should it be sending data back to China. This lawsuit will only add to those concerns and could result in punitive measures taken against ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok. ...
TikTok repeatedly declined to commit to US lawmakers on Wednesday that the short-form video app will cut off flows of US user data to China, instead promising that the outcome of its negotiations with the US government “will satisfy all national security concerns.” ...