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Title: US TikTok ban still subject of negotiation; app fined for misusing children’s data Post by: HCK on September 20, 2023, 04:05:03 pm US TikTok ban still subject of negotiation; app fined for misusing children’s data
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/09/US-TikTok-ban.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>Although the previous White House incumbent threatened a US TikTok (https://9to5mac.com/guides/tiktok/) ban and then quietly dropped it, the idea never quite went away. A new report says that fresh meetings have taken place between Bytedance, the Chinese owner of the app, and US government officials.</p> <p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/07/banning-tiktok/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Things kicked off back in the summer of 2020[/url] when the previous administration said that it was considering the possibility of banning TikTok over unspecified <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">security[/url] concerns that data could be used by the Chinese government. Since the app uses very little personal data, the nature of these fears <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/09/is-tiktok-a-national-security-threat/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">was not explained[/url] …</p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/15/us-tiktok-ban-negotiations/#more-908105" data-post-id="908105" data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="privacy,security,tiktok" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: US TikTok ban still subject of negotiation; app fined for misusing children’s data (https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/15/us-tiktok-ban-negotiations/) |