TikTok’s Very Bad Day: China’s biggest honeypot comes to Washington
A lot of well-justified negative attention trained on TikTok during a recent Congressional hearing–but how did the TikTok honeypot get so big?
Category: TikTok Meltdown
Is TikTok in your future? Maybe not and for all the right reasons.
TikTok’s days may be numbered–plan ahead.
Press Release: Texas Governor @GregAbbott_TX Announces Statewide Plan Banning Use Of TikTok
“Owned by a Chinese company that employs Chinese Communist Party members, TikTok harvests significant amounts of data from a user’s device, including details about a user’s internet activity.”
Update: TikTok Banned by Three More States Along With WeChat, Huawei, Others
Georgia, Idaho and New Hampshire have banned TikTok on government devices. These states join Alabama, Florida, North Dakota, Indiana, Iowa, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Maryland. Georgia has also banned WeChat and Telegram (WeChat being a product from Spotify partner TenCent): Idaho just banned TikTok. And New Hampshire implemented a more extensive ban on […]
Feds Follow States in Banning TikTok
Bipartisan legislation introduced in Washington to ban TikTok–do we have any liability for providing the human shields?
@ebakerwhite: TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens — Artist Rights Watch-
Emily Baker White warns of the harms from TIkTok we identified 2 years ago coming home to roost. @ebakerwhite: TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens — Artist Rights Watch–News for the Artist Rights Advocacy Community Well, here it is. Two years ago we warned everyone who […]
In Which Jeff Bezos Gets a Paddling from China’s Xi Jinping Over a Bad Book Review
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos kowtows to China’s grand poobah Xi Jinping and deletes bad reviews of Xi’s absurd book.
Notes and Materials on TikTok from MusicBiz Conference
I was pleased to moderate a panel on TikTok’s situation for the Music Business Association with an all-star panel of experts. You can access our voluminous panel materials here including the panelists biographies. The following is my opening statement followed by the panel outline with some page number cross references to the panel materials. Opening […]
TikTok’s Buyer Just Got Another Problem: Child Facial Recognition Class Action–MusicTech.Solutions
[This post first appeared on MusicTech.Solutions] There is a long line of copyright infringement cases that demonstrate how hard it is to right a situation that starts out wrong. In addition to TikTok’s copyright problems which it is frantically trying to buy its way out of, TikTok also has a problem with how it treats […]
Why No One Should Be Surprised About Tencent
MTP readers will not be surprised at the Executive Order relating to Tencent and one of its apps called “WeChat.” The WeChat app has long been considered a tool of censorship associated with China’s Ministry of State Security and the Chinese Communist Party. Most prominently, WeChat was linked to action taken by the ruling Chinese […]
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