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Jun 8, 2023 · In what appears to be a first, a former employee of ByteDance, TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, has outlined specific claims that the Chinese Communist Party accessed the data of TikTok users...
Sep 16, 2024 · Two academic studies argue that TikTok favors Chinese government views, and a new analysis says TikTok's parent firm is entangled with government propaganda organs.
- What Are The Concerns?
- Leaked Audio
- Might It All Be Harmless?
- Would Banning Tiktok Be Effective?
- What Should Tiktok Users do?
In his letter, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says: TikTok’s privacy policysays it won’t sell personal information to third parties, but reserves the right to use information internally for business development purposes. That internal use may include use by its parent company, ByteDance. TikTok US has repeatedly deniedbreaching US data privacy regul...
The unusually blunt language from Carr may have been occasioned by leaked audio obtained by Buzzfeedfrom more than 80 internal TikTok meetings. According to a Buzzfeed report from mid-June, China-based employees of ByteDance have repeatedly accessed non-public data about US TikTok users. The tapes overwhelmingly contradict TikTok’s earlier data pri...
On the one hand TikTok is in the business of entertaining users, with a goal to keep them on the platform and expose them to targeted advertising. On the other hand, TikTok can be used to spread misinformationand influence users to their detriment. It has been shown to host COVID conspiracy theories and other medical misinformation, and was reporte...
Removing TikTok from Google’s and Apple’s app stores can only be done on a country-by-country basis. India bannedthe platform in June 2020. If the Australian government were to make the TikTok domain inaccessible from Australia, it could still be accessed through a virtual private network(VPN). A VPN service allows users to create a secure private ...
Like any technology, TikTok itself is neither good nor bad. But the way in which it’s used creates potential for both. The best defence with any potentially dangerous technology is to approach it with healthy scepticism and share as little as possible. In the case of TikTok (and other social media) this may involve: 1. not disclosing your full name...
- David Tuffley
Since 2020, TikTok executives have repeatedly tried to reassure people that Chinese staff cannot access the data of non-Chinese users.
Jul 22, 2021 · But what is exceptional is the way the Chinese Communist Party-state has used such laws—and other tools—to give it ultimate influence over digital technologies and the flow of data.
- Samantha Hoffman
Mar 22, 2023 · The US and Chinese governments are battling for control over the algorithm that powers TikTok, with the short-form video app trapped in a geopolitical tug of war over its future.
Mar 21, 2023 · TikTok narrowly missed being banned completely from the US in 2020 by then president, Donald Trump. That threat has now been revived under the Biden administration. Much of the worry about...
