TikTok Reported Highest Takedown Requests From India and US, Zero From China (theverge.com) 14
hackingbear shares a report from The Verge: TikTok released its first transparency report yesterday, showing which countries have submitted requests for content removal as well as access to user data. China is notably absent from the report -- the video sharing app, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, claims it did not receive a single takedown request from Communist Party of China in the first half of 2019.
TikTok's report shows that U.S. law enforcement agencies have been working with TikTok to gain access to user data and take down content that violates U.S. laws. In the past year, TikTok received 79 requests for user data from U.S. law enforcement agencies, along with six requests for content takedowns. The company complied with 86 percent of the user data requests, and restricted or blocked seven accounts related to the content takedown requests. "TikTok is committed to assisting law enforcement in appropriate circumstances while at the same time respecting the privacy and rights of our users," Eric Ebenstein, TikTok's head of public policy, wrote in a blog post. The U.S. submitted the second highest number of overall requests, beat out only by India, which submitted 107 requests for user data and 11 requests for content takedowns. The report notes that China may not be in the report because TikTok doesn't operate there. The Chinese version of the app, which runs as a separate organization, is called Douyin.
TikTok's report shows that U.S. law enforcement agencies have been working with TikTok to gain access to user data and take down content that violates U.S. laws. In the past year, TikTok received 79 requests for user data from U.S. law enforcement agencies, along with six requests for content takedowns. The company complied with 86 percent of the user data requests, and restricted or blocked seven accounts related to the content takedown requests. "TikTok is committed to assisting law enforcement in appropriate circumstances while at the same time respecting the privacy and rights of our users," Eric Ebenstein, TikTok's head of public policy, wrote in a blog post. The U.S. submitted the second highest number of overall requests, beat out only by India, which submitted 107 requests for user data and 11 requests for content takedowns. The report notes that China may not be in the report because TikTok doesn't operate there. The Chinese version of the app, which runs as a separate organization, is called Douyin.
The summary self-owns the headline, what is the po (Score:5, Informative)
"The report notes that China may not be in the report because TikTok doesn't operate there. The Chinese version of the app, which runs as a separate organization, is called Douyin."
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How make takedown requests has /. received from China ? If none - is /. run by the a Chinese corporation too ? :-)
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Interesting that they are but pursuing Chinese people outside of China who use the app though. Also you can get it in China via VPN or in Hong Kong.
TikTok (Score:1)
Chinese government has special access (Score:3)
So the Chinese government has special non-transparent access to take down what they don't like. Either that, or they directly "take down" the author and anyone inside China who viewed the content, so they don't need to take the content down.
Is this really news to anyone?
You Obey the COURTS (Score:2)
What the fuck is the bullshit obeying law enforcement. They are not above the constitution. You do not obey law enforcement, you obey the courts, law enforcement obeys the courts. Politicians are meant to obey you and write laws, the police are meant to obey. Law enforcement is a police state lie, only the courts enforce the law, the police uphold the law, and make recommendation to the court with regard to enforcing the laws.
Once a state LIES to the public and starts calling police 'LAW ENFORCES" you no l
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Chinese takedown (Score:2)
Douyin (Score:1)
Cool (Score:1)