Tiktok Data News Today

The video sharing app said it began transferring European user information to a data center in Dublin. Two more data centers, another in Ireland and one in Norway, are under construction, TikTok said in an update on its plan to localise European user data, dubbed Project Clover.

TikTok, which is owned by Chinas ByteDance and filed suit in May, asked US District Judge Donald W. Molloy to issue a preliminary injunction to block the first-of-its-kind US state ban on several grounds, arguing it violates the First Amendment free speech rights of the company and users.

TikTok confirmed to Congress that it stores some data from Americans in China, contradicting prior statements made by the company's leadership under oath.

The bill is the latest in a series of proposals aimed at addressing concerns about the data of Americans using foreign-owned social media apps like TikTok.

In this week’s top data center news stories, layoffs at Amazon and Dropbox, AT&T joins forces with BlackRock, and a flood at Google’s Paris data center.

The Chinese-owned social media app TikTok faced scrutiny after CEO Shou Zi Chew testified in a congressional hearing, finally convincing Glenn to delete the official BlazeMedia TikTok account for good.

It was a tough day for TikTok CEO who was grilled by US lawmakers for more than four hours. Chew Zi Shou stood his ground, defending the social media app over its relationship with China, its data collection practices and its impact on young users in a hearing that was hostile

How is the way its delivering content any different than any other app? and so in this sense, we get to the question of the lack of us privacy law. the data wild west of google, facebook of data brokers of plenty of companies who or in this business of collecting and aggregating data using it in potentially harmful ways. and so in that sense, as many folks have pointed out, some of these issues go well beyond tiktok. so they do time. yeah go ahead. sorry, just so they do right. the second piece,...

Not available in mainland china . were headquartered in los angeles and in singapore, and we have 7000 employees in the u. s today. still. we have heard important concerns about the potential for unwanted foreign access to us data and potential manipulation of the tiktok us ecosystem. our approach has never been to dismiss or trivialize any of these concerns . we have addressed them with real action. now thats what weve been doing for the last two years, building what amounts to a firewall. the ...

I find these come up when i talk with people about this story. is there anything that you can change in your current settings on tiktok that restricts that data? appreciate your this is the challenge with most apps nowadays is there are some small tweaks you can make. for example on tiktok. itll ask you can we get access to your contacts on your phone? so you can and you should say no to that question, but at the end of the day, everything you do on the app the videos you watch or you watching c...