App’s lawyer urges a federal appeals court to throw out rule requiring its Chinese owner to divest it or be shut down ...
TikTok and a group of its users asked the US Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to block the government from enforcing the act, which requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance ...
They fear the Chinese government could force ByteDance to hand over data about TikTok's 170 million US users. TikTok insists it would not provide foreign user data to the Chinese government.
Pincus argued that the US government ... TikTok source code developed in China. Pincus had confirmed that any covert content manipulation uncovered on the app would only be discovered after users ...
the legislation is a US response to fears that TikTok’s China ties could allow that country’s government to access American users’ app data, such as which videos they have watched ...
A legal faceoff between TikTok and the U.S. government over a law that could ban the social media platform in the country is pitting two major principles against each other.
The US government alleges TikTok allows Beijing to collect data and spy on users. It also says TikTok is a conduit to spread propaganda. China and the company strongly deny these claims.
TikTok faces an uphill battle to avoid a US ban if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the wildly popular social media app, judging from a grilling by an appellate court panel. A three-judge panel ...
The US government ... users see on the app is vulnerable to manipulation by Chinese authorities, who can use it to shape content on the platform in a way that’s difficult to detect. TikTok ...
TikTok and a group of its users asked the US Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., to block the government from enforcing the act, which requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance ...
TikTok and its China ... fall into the hands of the Chinese government through coercion. Second, the U.S. says the proprietary algorithm that fuels what users see on the app is vulnerable to ...