the U.s. administration has begun to explore the chinese-run TikTok-video application, told the New York Times (you move to another service)on Friday.
the Investigation is to determine whether the application that sent data to China, told a news anonymous sources referring to. Us senators have demanded clarification of the application already last month.
TikTok is in particular the youth of the popular app, which has an estimated 500 million users around the world. App users can share self-made videos, which users usually lip-sync to the background music of the song.
the Investigation led to foreign ownership in the united states viewing the CFIUS committee. The time of the survey is, possibly, the amount of research the year before last made a purchase. At the time Tiktokit owning a chinese-oriented ByteDance-try to buy young popularity in the Musical.ly operating under the name the application.
Democrats senator Chuck Schumer and republican senator Tom Cotton reported last week that Bytedancea could possibly be forced to share user information to chinese intelligence organs.
Because tiktokit already have in the united states alone over 110 million downloads, it is only a spyware threat, which we cannot ignore, the senator told me in a letter, which they had shown to the National intelligence director Joseph Maguire .
the Senators are also warning that the app could potentially influence voters in next year’s presidential election.
TikTok to distance themselves from China
republican senator Marco Rubio was pleased with the news. He told me on Twitter that he had asked last month for the U.s. treasury department, that the CFIUS would start to explore Tiktokit.
Because any China company owned beginning, which collect huge amounts of data from the us, is potentially a serious threat to our country, Rubio wrote, tweeting.
TikTok refused to comment on possible regulatory action uutisoimisto AFP for. Instead Tiktokit direction was assured AFP:the company’s highest priority is its users, and us regulators ‘ confidence in earning.
Last week, TikTok, who sought to some degree to distance themselves from China.
We will not affect any foreign government, including the Chinese government, Tiktokit were told.
the Company data centers are located outside of China, and the application data are the enterprise according to Chinese law under the auspices of the.CFIUS evaluations, coordinating the Us treasury reported that it could not comment on whether the investigation going on or not. Representative of the ministry of according to the law to prevent CFIUS’s information disclosure.
see also:
Adults think they know their children somekanavat – the surprise comes when the pupil’s own Snapchat, Instagram – and TikTok-account and the Youtube channel(16.10.)
the Guardian: Finnish young people recommended by the social services TikTok censor messages that do not have China in mind(25.9.)
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