TikTok Bad news is incessant for him. This time, a big fine on the platform with a focus on children given.
Details in the morning Here that came to the fore with the Australian move we have included TikTokincluding rules to protect children England was fined a full £12.7m (up to $15.7m) for violating data protection law. The UK Information Commission Presidency (ICO) said in a statement today that the company did not do enough to control who uses the app and did not take adequate action to prevent children from using the service. ICO spokesperson on this “We fined TikTok for providing services to children under the age of 13 and processing their personal data without their parents’ consent or authorization. We expect TikTok to continue its efforts to better detect and remove young children from the platform.” said.
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Before this TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew The statements made by Chew, He testified before Congress last year in the United States, and here comes important information. For example, former Xiaomi executive Shou Zi Chew was asked how the app uses biometric data for users and how it determines the age of users. Chew explained that TikTok is asking users to provide their date of birth to determine their age. However, this method does not work exactly as intended, as children lie about their age when registering on social media applications. Chew said that TikTok therefore scans shared videos to determine user ages. As far as it is reported, the videos they publish are checked to see if they match the age they entered, from here it can be determined if the user’s age is small. For this, all open videos are passed over with an automatic system, and as you can imagine, a large database is created. Some US companies also use such systems.
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was asked another important question within the scope of his statement. In the past year, ByteDance employees have determined the positions of journalists who critically covered the application (via IP addresses) was assumed to be used to track them. Four ByteDance employees, based in both the USA and China, were fired for accessing data to identify sources who leaked inside information to journalists, and this issue made a lot of noise. Exactly on this, Chew tells TikTok’s parent company ByteDance for American citizens. “espionage” He was asked if he did. Chew it “I don’t think espionage is the right term to describe it” gave the answer.
CEO Shou Zi ChewTikTok, which had more than 150 million American users before, never shared and will not share US user data with the Chinese government. had said. “TikTok has never shared or received a request to share data from US users with the Chinese government.” CEO Shou Zi Chew stated that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is not owned or controlled by any government or government entity, and also said, “ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country” he declared. To keep US data in the US “Project Texas” TikTok working on a project calledthis way he wants to avoid a possible ban because the app is a “national security risk” seen as.
