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A new subsidiary, TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. (USDS), was created to manage user data, software code, back-end systems, and content moderation. It would report to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), not ByteDance or TikTok, even for hiring practices.
The No TikTok on Government Devices Act was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill ( S. 1143 ) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.
Lawmakers making allegations against TikTok fail to mention that the United States itself surveils non-US nationals under Section 702 of FISA. [111] The types of data collected by TikTok are also collected by other social media platforms and sold through brokers to private buyers and reportedly government agencies as well, without oversight.
August 2, 2024 at 10:22 AM. With a federal TikTok ban still up in the air months after President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that would effectively ban the platform, many Mississippi content ...
TikTok is a social media application popular for its short-form mobile videos. Known for its scrolling algorithm, TikTok allows users to post videos that range from 3 seconds to 10 minutes long.
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 352-65 to ban the social media app TikTok in the U.S. unless its parent company — Beijing-based ByteDance — agrees to sell it.. Supporters ...
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. [ 7] Founded by Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, and a team of others in 2012, ByteDance developed the video-sharing apps TikTok and Douyin.
Politicians won't stop trying to make a TikTok ban happen, however. We went here with Trump, who tried to ban TikTok via executive order in 2020. (The courts said no, and the Biden administration ...