“the lawmakers questioned TikTok’s data-collection practices and whether the app adheres to censorship rules directed by the Chinese government that could limit what U.S. users see. TikTok, which provides users a feed of short videos, has become wildly popular among teenagers worldwide.”
Chinese might be stealing your dance videos, watch out.
Ok, I’ve heard people mention TikTok about 20 times this week. Sure enough my daughter is on it so she showed it to me last night. I guess I’m getting old, but it seems pretty worthless. It’s like Vine and Music.ly had a baby.
I was wondering when this was going to surface. Kind of ridiculous that basically all US social media companies are banned in China, but most from China operate here just fine. Seems like a pretty asymmetric relationship.
US internet companies can go to China whenever they want - they just need to agree to surrender all information and significant control to the Chinese government. So I guess it’s not necessarily a double standard. It just means a Chinese owned company is probably giving your information to China.