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Mar 11, 2020
Technology News: TikTok steps up transparency efforts after privacy concerns in United States
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PHOTO: Tik Tok logo is displayed on the smartphone while standing on
the U.S. flag in this illustration picture taken, November 8, 2019.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo
(Reuters)
- Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a
bid to boost transparency, the Chinese company said on Wednesday, as it
faces scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers who have accused it of sharing user
data with the Chinese government. The "Transparency Center" is
to be opened at TikTok's Los Angeles office where external experts will
oversee its operations, the company said in its blog bit.ly/2vNzjsv.
The
center would later provide insights into the app’s source code, the
closely guarded internal instructions of the software, and offer more
details on privacy and security.
Several U.S. agencies that deal
with national security and intelligence issues have banned employees
from using the app, whose popularity among teenagers has been growing
rapidly.
According to a 2017 Chinese law, companies operating in
the country are required to cooperate with the government on national
intelligence.
The U.S. Navy banned the app in December from its
government issued mobile devices, calling it a “cybersecurity threat”.
Later that month, TikTok published its first transparency report on the
“volume and nature” of governmental requests for its users’ account
information.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley called for a blanket
ban on the app for all federal employees last week, representing a
broader concern among lawmakers about collection and sharing of data on
U.S. users with the Chinese government.
The company has however
refuted claims and has said that U.S. user data is stored in the United
States and that China does not have jurisdiction over content that is
not in China. TikTok, owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance,
allows users to create and share short videos with special effects, and
is hugely popular in Southeast Asia, including India.
Reporting by Neha Malara in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi
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