Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is urging President Joe Biden to address concerns posed by popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok. “I encourage the Biden admin to stick to its concerns about CCP [Chinese Communist Party] social media companies like TikTok, which put our personal data & nat’l…
US Lawmaker Urges Biden to Keep His Promise to Address TikTok Security Risks
Italy Tells TikTok to Block Users After Death of Young Girl
ROME—The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users in Italy whose age it could not verify following the death of a 10-year-old girl who had been using the Chinese-owned app. In a statement, the regulator said that although TikTok had committed to ban registration for…
Celebrity Jewelry Designer Befriends Homeless Woman, Fundraises to Get Her an Apartment
A TikTok star has given a homeless woman on Skid Row in Los Angeles, California, the opportunity to reclaim her life, documenting their interactions in a series of viral videos on TikTok. Isaiah Garza–a jewelry designer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur from downtown Los Angeles with over 4 million followers–started visiting Robin Clayton on Skid Row in August 2020,…
12-Year-Old Girl Accuses TikTok of Illegally Abusing Children’s Data
A 12-year-old girl from London is planning to bring legal action on behalf of all children who are, or were, users of the short video-sharing app TikTok. According to a judgment (pdf) handed down on Wednesday by judge Justice Warby, the claim alleges that Tik Tok and its “effective predecessor,” Musical.ly, broke EU and UK…
NTD Business Full Broadcast (Dec. 29)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell votes down a measure to get $2,000 stimulus check to the American public. He says the Senate can focus on it at a later time. And what’s the downside to stimulus payments? Who pays for them? We talk to Lance Roberts, chief strategist at Real Investment Advice. Progress on the…
Retailers Bringing Chinese Livestream Shopping Events to Americans
News analysis U.S. companies are beginning to adopt an online retail model widely used in China: livestreaming e-commerce. Livestreaming e-commerce is the live promotion and selling of products via social media influencers either on their own channels or on the channel of an e-commerce platform. In China, it is mostly held on a channel hosted…
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