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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 it's 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, though, is that many of those other companies i just named or not owned by a chinese technology co...
Not available in mainland china . we're 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 that's what we've been doing for the last two years, building what amounts to a firewall. the seals of protected us user data from unauthorized foreign access. the bottom line is this america...
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. it'll 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 conservative content, liberal content. are you watching lgbtq content right content from black creat...