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Congress will prohibit TikTok from the US government phone system.
TikTok on Thursday refuted a Forbes report that alleged the ByteDance-parent company wanted to use the video app to “monitor the personal location” of American citizens. TikTok said ByteDance’s Internal Audit team didn’t collect preciseGPS location information from US users. TikTok also claimed Forbes left off a vital part of its statement, which said ByteDance…
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Republicans are playing to the Fox News crowd with attacks on TikTok.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance cannot be trusted with user data in US because of the potential national security risk, Senator Marco Rubio said. The proposed legislation would “block and prohibit all transactions” in US by social media companies with at least one million monthly users based in countries like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba…
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A ban bill has been introduced by US lawmakers.
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has been accused of censoring content and banning accounts that posted about China’s mass internment camps. TikTok has previously said it doesn’t share information with the Chinese government and that a US-based security team decides who can access US user data from China. TikTok has been accused of banning some accounts…
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China is a hot new place for US election misinformation.
TikTok-parent ByteDance was planning to track two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship with the company”, Forbes reported. ByteDance’s Internal Audit team planned to surveilling at least two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship with the company”, the report added. This comes weeks after ByteDance said that it had stopped providing…
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Republicans are attacking TikTok in a way that plays to the Fox News crowd.
Chinese video-sharing platform TikTok’s parent company BYTEDance has said that it does not provide any information on its users to the government or other entities. “We don’t provide any information on our users to any third party,” a BYTEDance spokesperson said. TikTok was acquired by BYTEDance in 2018 for $6.2 billion in the largest-ever deal…
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The ban bill was introduced by US lawmakers.
US President Donald Trump has called for internet giants to be blocked. “The way we are going to stop these companies from doing business in our country…is by closing down the internet in our country,” Trump said. This comes after Chinese social media firm ByteDance was accused of conducting an internal audit with a USTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkiaTrademarkia…
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TikTok denies a plan to track specific US citizens using its app.
TikTok-parent ByteDance plans to monitor at least two Americans who “had never had an employment relationship” with the company, Forbes reported. The internal audit team of ByteDance allegedly planned on surveilling at least two Americans who had “never had an employment relationship with the company”. Forbes claimed that ByteDance did not reveal who was going…