(Washington Composite Electric) Zhou, the overseas version of the overseas version of the Chinese short video platform Douyin, was funded by Zhou, the CEO of Tiktok.The company announced on the eve of his certificate that its monthly active users in the United States reached 150 million, an increase of 50 million in two years.It also announced a plan to strengthen safety measures.
The U.S. government has notified Tiktok's parent company byte Betting Technology Co., Ltd. to sell Tiktok shares, otherwise it may ban this video sharing application.On March 17, six US senators supported the two -party legislation, giving the president's power to Bayeng New, and banned Tiktok on the grounds of national security.
Reuters quoted the Senate intelligence committee chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner's speech at the Christian scientific motto reported breakfast meeting that Tiktok's US data security was not guaranteed.
Tiktok deny the allegations of the collection of affection in the United States.It publishes advertisements on Washington Metro Networks and newspapers, explaining how the company invested $ 1.5 billion (about S $ 2 billion) for strict data security work.
It says, "If protecting national security is the goal, withdrawal of capital cannot solve the problem: changes in ownership will not make the data flow or access right to give any new restrictions."
Non -profit organization "Science and Technology Supervision Project" said that the national security and mental health risks brought by Tiktok are also shared by other social media platforms.It recommends that Congress reviews other social media companies before listening to the capital of the weekly capital.
Bloomberg quoted the "Science and Technology Supervision Project" memo, saying that Meta, Google, Apple, and Amazon, the parent company of Facebook, all used the same harmful marketing behavior as Tiktok and copied many similar functional designs.All these platforms forcibly instill risk and harmful content to children, encouraging American competitors, and failed to protect users' personal information.
Although this memorandum criticized Tiktok, it echoed some of the company's arguments, that is, legislators should pay attention to general data management, rather than byte beating as Chinese companies.
