TikTok has been fined 530m (05452m) because it was illegally sending user data to China, Ireland's privacy watchdog said on Friday.Ireland's Data Protection Commission found the social media app's data transfers to China broke strict data privacy rules in the EU.It also fined the company...
The investigation, which opened in September 2021, also found that TikToks privacy policy at the time did not name third countries, including China, where user data was transferred. The watchdog said the policy, which has since been updated, failed to explain that data processing involved remote...
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.” ...
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...
TikTok, which originated in China, has always been in the headlines regarding user data safety. The platform has been alleged to sell user data to the Chinese government, and many countries took this as a national threat and decided to ban TikTok promptly. ...
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"You can ban TikTok, but there are still data brokers who sell our data to other countries. … So let's not have a dishonest conversation. Let's not be racist toward China and express our xenophobia when it comes to TikTok because American companies have done tremendous harm to American ...
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. ...
European Commissioners warned TikTok’s CEO on Tuesday (10 January) that the company needs to regain their trust following revelations it transmitted sensitive data to China.
A lawsuit has been filed in California against video social network TikTok, which claims the app collects user data and sends it to China, something the firm has denied in the past. Although owned by a Chinese company, TikTok says it operates independent