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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...
Since 2020, TikTok executives have repeatedly tried to reassure people that Chinese staff cannot access the data of non-Chinese users.
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.
Feb 6, 2023 · Under geopolitical, social and cultural dynamics, this paper examines the data sovereignty of TikTok, its sister app Douyin and its international competitor Facebook, aiming at differentiating data related policies between TikTok, Douyin and other global platforms.
Jul 5, 2022 · Following robust questioning by US senators, TikTok has admitted its US-stored data are in fact accessible from China, subject to unspecified security protocols at the US end.
- David Tuffley
Dec 16, 2019 · Though a previous version of TikTok’s privacy policy stated that user data could be sent to China, the suit alleges that the company did so after that policy changed.
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.
