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TikTok ban: Australia joins US, Canada and others to ban TikTok from govt-issued devices
Mehul Das •Australia's Attorney General has announced that TikTok is now banned from all government devices in the country. Australia joins a growing number of countries to have banned the ByteDance-owned Chinese social media video-sharing app.
With TikTok US Ban likely, ByteDance launches alternate, Insta-like app, run pricey promo campaigns
Mehul Das •Fearing that they will soon get banned in the US, ByteDance launched an alternate app in the country called Lemon8. It is supposed to replace TikTok and take on Instagram. ByteDance is spending millions and millions of dollars to heavily promote the app
TikTok US Ban: Lawmakers to move forward with bill banning TikTok, says House speaker McCarthy
Mehul Das •US House speaker Kevin McCarthy has revealed that lawmakers in the US will be going ahead with the bill to ban TikTok. McCarthy said that it was concerning that the CEO of TikTok, Shou Zi Chew can't be honest and admit that China and ByteDance spied using TikTok
TikTok US Ban likely, CEO Chew fails to convince Congress that the app is not a ‘weapon’ for China
Mehul Das •TikTok in all likelihood is going to get banned following the US Congressional hearing. CEO Shou Zi Chew, as prepared as he was had a rough hearing, during which, he dodged a number of important questions on US user's data and Chinese spying.
Questions like 'Does TikTok use WiFi' shows that US Congress isn’t equipped to legislate tech
Mehul Das •TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the US House Energy and Commerce Committee. While there were some pointed questions aimed at TikTok and him, some of the questions exposed Congress' inadequacy to legislate tech.
Despite getting banned in 2020, TikTok still has access to data of Indian users
Mehul Das •Almost anyone with basic access to business tools in ByteDance can retrieve and analyse data about previous TikTok users in India. That means people in TikTok, ByteDance and China's CCP can easily access the data of over 150 million Indian accounts and users.
TikTok CEO appeals to 150 million US users for support ahead of Congressional hearing
Mehul Das •TikTok's CEO Chew Shou Zi took to Instagram and appealed to all 150 million TikTok users in the US to voice their support for the video-sharing app and urged them to tell House Representatives why banning TikTok isn't a good idea.
TikTok keen on getting out of trouble, updates content rulebook, asserts never shared data with CCP
Mehul Das •TikTok is trying to charm US legislators by changing its content rulebook and asserting that they have never shared data with China, and that they have enough safeguards in place to stop ByteDance China from accessing American user's data.
China’s data collection agent: TikTok’s insidious ways to collect data and share it with the CCP
Mehul Das •TikTok may very well be China's personal data collection agent. While TikTok maintains that they don't share any data with the CCP, because of Chinese laws, ByteDance, TikTok's parent company is obligated to share all data that it has.
Surprise, surprise: TikTok lying about Chinese spying, former employee tells US Congress
Mehul Das •A former TikTok employee-turned-whistleblower has revealed that TikTok is lying to the US government and the US Congress over China's ability to spy on users in the US and influence the content that US users consume and how Project Texas will stop that.