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Executive Order 14034 ("EO 14034"), "Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries". In January 2020, the United States Army and Navy banned TikTok on government devices after the Defense Department labeled it a security risk. Before the policy change, army recruiters had been using the platform to attract young people.
Donald Trump–TikTok controversy. In 2020, the United States government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then- president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat. The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance —which initially planned on selling a small ...
Show comments. The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, accusing the social media giant of unlawfully collecting and retaining data from ...
The post House passes bill to force TikTok sale or ban in the US, extending deadline to 9 months appeared first on TheGrio. ... safeguard users’ privacy and make companies more liable for ...
The work on splitting the source code ordered by TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance late last year predated a bill to force a sale of TikTok's U.S. operations that began gaining steam in Congress
In November 2019, a class action lawsuit was filed in California that alleged that TikTok transferred personally identifiable information of U.S. persons to servers located in China owned by Tencent and Alibaba. [5] [6] [7] The lawsuit also accused ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, of taking user content without their permission.
The U.S. sued TikTok predecessor Musical.ly in 2019 for violating COPPA provisions and fined it $5.7 million. The government also ordered the company to destroy personal information of users under 13.
While the majority of iPhone apps can run on the iPad in an iPhone sized window, WhatsApp was one of the very few apps to be completely unavailable on the iPad due to the "telephony" restriction. In a 2022 interview with The Verge , WhatsApp chief Will Cathcart acknowledged that "[p]eople have wanted an iPad app for a long time" and said that ...