Is TikTok a Chinese Cambridge Analytica data bomb waiting to explode?

hawki · Nov 12, 2020

"Commerce Department Announces Stay of TikTok Shutdown Order

The Commerce Department statement said that the shutdown order won’t go into effect ‘pending further legal developments’..."

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/commerce-department-announces-stay-of-tiktok-shutdown-order-11605213481

mood · Nov 13, 2020

TikTok granted 15-day extension on forced sale deadline
November 13, 2020
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tiktok-granted-15-day-extension-on-forced-sale-deadline-1.1522140

The Trump administration has given the owner of TikTok another 15 days to resolve national security concerns before it’s required to sell the viral video-sharing app.

The app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd., said in a court filing Friday that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. had granted it until Nov. 27 to reach an agreement, extending a deadline that was set to expire on Thursday. TikTok declined to comment on the filing.
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mood · Nov 17, 2020

TikTok expands parental controls to include search, commenting, and account privacy
November 17, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/t...nclude-search-commenting-and-account-privacy/

TikTok today announced it’s expanding its parental control feature set known as Family Pairing to give parents additional tools to manage various aspects of their teen’s account as well as their privacy on the social video platform. The new tools will allow parents to set their teen’s account to private, control whether their Liked Videos are visible to others, control who can comment on the teen’s videos, and even decide whether the teen is allowed to use TikTok’s search feature.

When Family Pairing first launched in April, it allowed parents to link their account to their teen’s in order to manage screen time, direct messaging, and whether or not the teen’s account would be in “Restricted” mode — a special mode which limits TikTok’s feed to a safer set of more moderated content.
With the update rolling out today, parents will now be able to adjust an expanded range of parental control settings for their teen.
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Parents can also choose to now turn on or off the ability for other users to see the teen’s “Like Videos” on their profile. And they can limit who is allowed to comment on their teen’s videos by selecting either “everyone,” “friends,” or “no one.”
The Family Pairing feature is designed to be used by parents with children age 13 or older, as the app in the U.S. offers a COPPA-compliant, view-only mode for the “under 13” crowd, TikTok for Younger Users.
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The features arrive at a tumultuous time for TikTok, whose app is still possibly being banned in the U.S. (But who even knows these days?!).
The company says the new parental controls are rolling out to all users worldwide.
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TikTok: Supporting youth and families on TikTok

mood · Nov 22, 2020

Trump’s WeChat, TikTok bans will go through, White House aide says
November 22, 2020
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...-tiktok-bans-will-go-through-white-house-aide

US national security adviser Robert O’Brien said he expected President Donald Trump’s attempts to ban the WeChat and TikTok apps to “ultimately” succeed.

Moves by the Trump administration to restrict the Chinese-owned social-media platforms in the United States for what it said were national security reasons have been put on hold as a result of court injunctions. WeChat and TikTok users have argued that the bans were motivated by election year politics rather than genuine security concerns.

“We’re now looking – those court cases are ongoing, so the federal government will wait and see what our courts tell us we can or can’t do with respect to those bans,” O’Brien said at an event in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi.
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President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on January 20, has promised to review security risks surrounding the TikTok app.
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mood · Nov 25, 2020

US grants China’s ByteDance new seven-day extension of TikTok sale order
November 26, 2020
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...bytedance-new-seven-day-extension-tiktok-sale

The Trump administration on Wednesday granted ByteDance a new seven-day extension of an order directing the Chinese company to sell its TikTok short video-sharing app, according to a court filing.

The administration previously had granted ByteDance a 15-day extension of the order issued in August, which was set to expire on Friday. President Donald Trump on August 14 had directed ByteDance to divest the app within 90 days.
The new deadline is December 4, TikTok said in the filing.
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mood · Nov 27, 2020

TikTok’s epic rise and stumble
A timeline of the app's growing popularity in the United States amid increasing government scrutiny
November 26, 2020
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/26/tiktok-timeline/

TikTok’s rise in the West is unprecedented for any Chinese tech company, and so is the amount of attention it has attracted from politicians worldwide. Below is a timeline of how TikTok grew from what some considered another “copycat” short video app to global dominance and eventually became a target of the U.S. government.
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This timeline will be updated as developments occur.
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mood · Dec 2, 2020

Appeals court schedules Dec. 14 hearing on blocked U.S. TikTok new user ban
December 2, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...blocked-u-s-tiktok-new-user-ban-idUSKBN28C2VO

A federal appeals court said on Wednesday it will hear oral arguments on Dec. 14 on the government’s appeal of an order that blocked a ban on Apple Inc and Alphabet’s Google offering TikTok for download in U.S. app stores.
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hawki · Dec 4, 2020

The clock is ticking on Tik Tok -- Latest sell deadline is today:

"Deadline looms to sell US TikTok platform

Prospects for popular shortform video app TikTok remained unclear Friday, the Trump administration's latest deadline on China's ByteDance to sell the US TikTok platform.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States on November 25 pushed back the deadline by seven days to resolve the issue, which centers on White House threats to ban the popular social media app, which it says could be used for Chinese espionage..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...ell-us-tiktok-platform/ar-BB1bDDSf?li=BBnb7Kz

hawki · Dec 4, 2020

"TikTok sale deadline will pass, though regulators will hold off on enforcing divestiture

TikTok’s Chinese owner didn’t get a formal reprieve from the Friday deadline to divest the U.S. operations of its popular video app. But it appears to have gotten a bit more time...

The Treasury Department told TikTok executives Friday that it would not extend the deadline, but also said it won’t yet compel the sale,..

There is no formal extension, but no plans to enforce anything...No new deadline, even an informal one, was given for a deal’s completion..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/04/tiktok-sale-deadline/

mood · Dec 7, 2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, The 2nd Court To Fully Block The Action
December 7, 2020
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/9440...urt-to-fully-block-the-action?t=1607392008130

A federal judge on Monday fully blocked the Trump administration's attempt to ban TikTok in the U.S., the latest defeat in the White House's legal crusade against the video-sharing app.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington found that Trump overstepped his authority in using his emergency economic powers to try to effectively put the wildly popular app out of business. He was the second judge to rule against the president's ban.
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A TikTok spokesperson said company is pleased with the latest court victory, saying: "We're focused on continuing to build TikTok as the home that 100 million Americans, including families and small businesses, rely upon for expression, connection, economic livelihood, and true joy."
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The Verge: Second judge says Trump can’t ban TikTok

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction that should keep the US Commerce Department from banning transactions with TikTok.
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mood · Dec 14, 2020

TikTok appeal court judges appear sceptical of Trump ban
December 15, 2020
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...ppeal-court-judges-appear-sceptical-trump-ban

A panel of judges on the US appeal court in Washington appeared sceptical of the Trump administration’s continuing efforts to ban new downloads of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok.

At a hearing on Monday, two of the three judges suggested they disagreed with the government’s legal rationale for a ban on TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance.
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The government is relying on “a fairly narrow definition of indirect regulation,” US Circuit Judge Patricia Millett said at Monday’s hearing.
US Circuit Judge Judith Rogers was more blunt.

“Congress wrote this language,” Rogers said, and the government’s justification for the ban “seems to fly in the face of that”.
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The chances that any TikTok ban will go into effect are slim.
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mood · Dec 15, 2020

ASD leaves TikTok ban decisions in departmental hands
December 15, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/asd-leaves-tiktok-ban-decisions-in-departmental-hands/

The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has said even though it provides technical advice on cybersecurity matters to the Australian government, it does not impose bans on apps or technology.

One particular issue has been whether apps like Wechat and TikTok pose a security threat for Australian government employees, and whether the apps should be allowed onto work devices.

"It is a matter for individual departments to make their own risk judgements weighed against the potential utility of the application for the proper running of their own organisations," the intelligence agency said in answer to a Senate Estimates Question on Notice.
In response to another question, ASD did say it provided technical advice to government, but has not undertaken a wide-ranging risk assessment.
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mood · Dec 28, 2020

U.S. government appeals judge's order blocking TikTok restrictions
December 28, 2020
https://in.reuters.com/article/usa-...er-blocking-tiktok-restrictions-idINW1N2H604B

The U.S. government on Monday appealed a Dec. 7 order by a U.S. judge that blocked the U.S. Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok that would have effectively barred its use in the United States.

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington issued an order after U.S. Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Pennsylvania in October blocked the same restrictions that had been set to take effect on Nov. 12. The Justice Department said it was appealing Nichols’ order to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. (Reporting by David Shepardson Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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mood · Jan 1, 2021

TikTok faces legal action from 12-year-old girl in England
...claiming the company uses children's data unlawfully
December 31, 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55497350

A court has ruled the girl can remain anonymous if the case goes ahead.
The action is being supported by Anne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England. She believes TikTok has broken UK and EU data protection laws.

Ms Longfield hopes the case will lead to greater protective measures for under-16s who use TikTok in England and possibly beyond.
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The commissioner told the High Court in London - via a video link - that she hoped it to would ultimately issue an order forcing the firm to delete the child's data, setting a precedent.
But the focus of the preliminary hearing was to decide whether the 12-year-old girl could make a claim anonymously.
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In a statement, TikTok said:

"Privacy and safety are top priorities for TikTok and we have robust policies, processes and technologies in place to protect all users, and our younger users in particular. As this application was made without notice, we first became aware of the application and the High Court's judgment [on Wednesday] and are currently considering its implications."
The app's terms and conditions state the service is not available to under-13s and all users are asked their age when signing up.
It actively reviews and removes accounts that appear to be used by under-13s.
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mood · Jan 13, 2021 at 9:30 AM

TikTok introduces stricter privacy rules for its youngest users
January 13, 2021
https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-privacy-rules-kids/

TikTok, the social media site known for its popularity among youth, is making its youngest users' accounts more private.
On Wednesday, the company introduced a new set of privacy rules for users under the age of 18.

From now on, all registered users ages 13-15 will have their accounts set to private by default. This means that those profiles won't be accessible to anyone that hasn't been explicitly approved. Furthermore, users in this age group are losing the "Everyone" comment setting, and will now have to choose between "Friends" or "No One" for their comments. The setting "Suggest your account to others" will be switched to Off by default for users 13-15.
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"We want our younger users to be able to make informed choices about what and with whom they choose to share, which includes whether they want to open their account to public views. By engaging them early in their privacy journey, we can enable them to make more deliberate decisions about their online privacy," TikTok said in a post.
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TikTok: Strengthening privacy and safety for youth on TikTok

At TikTok, we know that creativity and expression are personal. And so is privacy. That's why we empower our community with a range of controls to manage their online presence. As young people start their digital journey, we believe it's important to provide them with age-appropriate privacy settings and controls. Today we're announcing changes for users under age 18 aimed at driving higher default standards for user privacy and safety.
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