Percentage of people who never accessed the Internet in 2022. by @milos_agathon
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Congressional Republicans demand TikTok turn over documents about user data being accessed in China
Republicans in Congres requested documents from TikTok, alleging the social media company allows Chinese employees access to private US user data, according to a post from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. In a letter sent to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew—and shared on Twitter by Carr, who has long demanded TikTok be investigated—the ranking members of …
Congress calls on FTC to investigate TikTok over reports China accessed user data
Lawmakers are calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate TikTok following reports that U.S. user data was accessed in China. In an open letter this week, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) urged FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan to open a formal investigation after …
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An FCC Commissioner Wants TikTok Removed From App Stores After BuzzFeed News Found American User Data Was Repeatedly Accessed In China
Earlier this month, BuzzFeed News published a report after accessing leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings that contained 14 statements from nine different TikTok employees showing that the company’s engineers in Beijing had accessed data of American TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022. This leaked audio significantly corroborated previous reporting …
US TikTok User Data Has Been Repeatedly Accessed From China, Leaked Audio Shows
Erik Carter for BuzzFeed News For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States is stored in the United States, rather than China, where ByteDance, the video platform’s parent company, is located. But according to leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, …
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