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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...
Jul 22, 2021 · China’s new Data Security Law, enacted in June, established that in China, data will be collected, stored, and processed in a manner that’s consistent with the party state’s paramount ...
- Samantha Hoffman
- 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
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.
Since 2020, TikTok executives have repeatedly tried to reassure people that Chinese staff cannot access the data of non-Chinese users.
May 20, 2021 · From the American and Indian perspectives, TikTok could be a digital Trojan horse through which the Chinese government can manipulate international public opinion. As the Indian newspaper pointed out, ‘TikTok is to serve China’s global political and military purposes’ (Banerjee, 2020a).
Mar 21, 2023 · A detailed analysis of the code in the app found that TikTok was based on Douyin, the version for Chinese users, which has features that make it compliant with Chinese censorship regulations.
