EU Confirms Multiple Ongoing Investigations Into TikTok Data Practices (engadget.com) 7
The president of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has confirmed there are multiple ongoing investigations into TikTok. From a report: The probes concern the transfer of EU citizens' data to China and targeted advertising aimed at minors. Investigators are seeking to ensure that TikTok meets General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. "The data practices of TikTok, including with respect to international data transfers, are the object of several ongoing proceedings," Ursula von der Leyden wrote in a letter shared by Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr.
"This includes an investigation by the Irish [Data Protection Commission] about TikTok's compliance with several GDPR requirements, including as regards data transfers to China and the processing of data of minors, and litigation before the Dutch courts (in particular concerning targeted advertising regarding minors and data transfers to China)." Von der Leyden was responding to concerns raised by members of the European Parliament regarding Chinese public authorities potentially gaining access to EU citizens' TikTok data, following a report by BuzzFeed News. The app's data practices have been under the EU's spotlight for a while. Earlier this year, TikTok agreed to enforce certain policies concerning ads and branded content following a complaint that accused the app of breaching EU consumer rules.
"This includes an investigation by the Irish [Data Protection Commission] about TikTok's compliance with several GDPR requirements, including as regards data transfers to China and the processing of data of minors, and litigation before the Dutch courts (in particular concerning targeted advertising regarding minors and data transfers to China)." Von der Leyden was responding to concerns raised by members of the European Parliament regarding Chinese public authorities potentially gaining access to EU citizens' TikTok data, following a report by BuzzFeed News. The app's data practices have been under the EU's spotlight for a while. Earlier this year, TikTok agreed to enforce certain policies concerning ads and branded content following a complaint that accused the app of breaching EU consumer rules.
remember broadcast? (Score:1)
Broadcast still has the defacto standards at any given point end to end. Encoding is coming back under regulation so we'll see web standards for media be blocked soon, quietly. Every web tool almost has their own encoding standards.
FFS (Score:3)
Nationalized data storage sucks (Score:3)
Oh, and it starts to make truly decentralized (and global democratic governed) information/communication services of the near future illegal before they even get off the ground.
Re: (Score:1)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=... [youtube.com] don't you know...?
Von der Leyen will fail upwards (Score:2)
If history is any indicator, von der Leyen will fail horribly there too and they will again promote her upwards until she is master of the whole universe or something.