President Donald Trump has ordered the Chinese techology company ByteDance, parent company of TikTok to sell their assets in the U.S. and destroy all user data in their custody within 90 days.
The Chinese company is also facing a federal class-action lawsuit for allegedly misusing user data in the U.S. In the lawsuit, parents from various states claim that TikTok steals user data of underage users and sends it to a servers in China.
Lawyers suing TikTok just filed an amended class-action lawsuit with this new allegation:
— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) August 15, 2020
TikTok secretly shares users' video viewing history with FB and Google without user consent.
Privacy attorneys say that's a problem "in the billions of dollars."https://t.co/BhSVLYfVQf pic.twitter.com/KwG0N1L0rO
Recently, President Trump threatened to ban TikTok in the United States of America.
Currently, there are 100 million American users on TikTok. Microsoft is currently a leading candidate to purchase TikTok.
President Donald Trump says that he has “credible evidence” against TikTok.
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