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- Asia Fact Check Lab (AFCL) found no evidence to support that TikTok intentionally shared or plans to share user data with the Chinese government.
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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...
- Introduction
- Platforms and Geopolitics: Adventures in Us Hegemony
- The Geopolitics of Tiktok’S Controversial Rise in The Us
- Conclusion
The short form video app TikTok is the first social media ‘platform’ born outside the US to significantly rival the Silicon Valley incumbents. Since its rise in the short video economy, TikTok has come under intense criticism from governments around the world, resulting in outright bans in some jurisdictions (Press Information Bureau Delhi, 2020). ...
The dominance of the digital environment by Silicon Valley technology companies presents a range of social, political and economic problems, many of which are compounded by their oligopolistic status. It is undemocratic and anticompetitive to have a small number of companies own and control the systems by which we communicate, socialise and transac...
In the short form video market, while apps such as Marco Polo and House Party have provided alternatives to market leaders Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, only TikTok has managed to achieve a level of adoption high enough to pose an actual competitive threat to the market incumbents. TikTok rose to prominence in 2019 and, by early 2020, it was th...
On the basis of its data policies and practices, TikTok poses no greater security threat to its users than do its counterparts. Almost all of the most widely used digital platforms threaten the privacy and security of users, they all have the capacity for immense ideological influence, and they exploit user data for economic gain. As a geopolitical...
- Joanne Elizabeth Gray
- 2021
Why TikTok Is a Threat to Democracy. The popular Chinese-owned app is enabling Beijing to collect data on people nearly everywhere. Not only can such platforms track people’s preferences and whereabouts, but they give the Chinese government control over a powerful tool for shaping people’s worldview. October 2022. By Aynne Kokas.
Dec 2, 2021 · In July 2020, then-President Donald Trump accused TikTok of a series of breaches, the most serious of which was sharing user data with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (Levine, 2020). Yet, some experts, including Adam Segal from the Council of Foreign Relations, considered the near-ban a smokescreen to hinder the growth of the most globally ...
Mar 9, 2024 · Espionage: A 2020 executive order by then President Donald Trump broached the possibility that China could use TikTok’s data to “track the locations of federal employees and contractors”...
Feb 6, 2023 · Through detailed analysis of data policies of TikTok, Douyin and Facebook, this study uncovered similarities of data usage between these platforms, noting the lack of transparency in data policies, bureaucracy in terms and conditions and underregulated practices for data sharing protocols.
Feb 27, 2024 · This research makes significant and timely contributions to the geopolitics of TikTok and foreign interference in an international context. It informs inconsistencies in regulatory and legal approaches relating to foreign interference and data sovereignty, beyond “China threat” narratives.
