Indiana, USA on Wednesday (December 7), filed two lawsuits on the short video platform Douyin Overseas Tiktok, accusing the platform of deceiving consumers in terms of content and data security, and pushing adult content to young people.
The Journal of Reuters and Wall Street reported that Indiana Attorney General and Republican Todd Rokita Office accused the TIKTOK of China Science and Technology Giant's byte beating in violation of it.State Consumer Protection Law failed to protect young users, and also made misleading statements in data security. It did not disclose that the Chinese government may obtain sensitive information of consumers.
Statement stated that Tiktok's age rating in Apple and Android app stores is over 12 years old, but its algorithm will push to minors, including adult content related to topics such as sex, alcoholism, drug abuse, etc., Deceived young users and their parents.
State the charges that TIKTOK's algorithm is intended to make young users addicted and promote the harmful content that is not suitable for their young groups.The statement also quoted a number of research and reports, which associated a large number of uses of Tiktok applications with young mental illness. These diseases include dietary disorders and depression.
In addition, they stated that Tiktok had the highly sensitive personal information of American users and claimed that the information was fully protected.The statement said that the Chinese government has expressed interest in data collected by Tiktok, and Beijing can use it to monitor or even extract American users.
Indiana claims that this is the first time that the state has initiated a lawsuit against Tiktok and byte beating.The New York Times quoted the Rockta Office that Indiana demanded a fine of up to $ 5,000 (S $ 6786) for each violation, and asked the State High Court to order Tiktok to sell itself as applications suitable for adolescents.
Tiktok's spokesman said the company did not comment on the unsuccessful lawsuit.
On the same day, Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, ordered all Texas institutions to prohibit Tiktok from the government's equipment.Abert posted on Twitter that the CCP pose a bigger and bigger threat to the United States' network security.
Before Indiana and Texas took action against TIKTOK, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Republican Governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, had asked for it.Tiktok is disabled on the state government equipment.
Comprehensive Taiwan United Daily News and Central News Agency reported that Taiwanese digital officials said this week that Douyin, Tiktok (International Edition) and Xiaohongshu belong to "endangering national assets of security products".The department's Zitong equipment and the use of the field.
Wu Zhengzhong, chairman of the Taiwan National Science Council, also said in the Legislative Yuan on Thursday that the main problem of Douyin is to spread false information and foresee that the Executive Yuan will convene a security association at the end of the month to discuss the processing supporting and supporting support and support of related software and the supporting facilities and supporting the software and the supporting facilities and support of the softwarepolicy.
