TikTok to users in Europe: Employees in these 10 countries can get access to your data – Times of India
The wildly popular social media app TikTok has some ‘important’ information for its users in Europe. According to a report in the Guardian, the Chinese app is updating its privacy policy to confirm that employees in some countries are allowed to access users’ data. This has been revealed by TikTok’s head of privacy in Europe, Elaine Fox. “Based on a demonstrated need to do their job, subject to a series of robust security controls and approval protocols, and by way of methods that are recognised under the GDPR [the EU’s general data protection regulation], we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States, remote access to TikTok European user data,” Fox said.
The privacy policy update goes live on December 2 and applies to the UK, the European Economic Area, and Switzerland.
TikTok on need for data sharing
The purpose of giving employees access to data, TikTok says, is to ensure that users’ experience of the platform is “consistent, enjoyable and safe”. It adds that data can be used to conduct checks on aspects of the platform, including the performance of its algorithms, which recommend content to users, and detect vexatious automated accounts. Earlier too, TikTok has acknowledged that some user data is accessed by employees of the company’s parent, ByteDance, in China.
TikTok continues to be under scanner in the US
The Chinese app is facing rough weather in the US too despite its huge popularity. The US President, Joe Biden, scrapped executive orders from Donald Trump asking for the sale of TikTok’s US business. However, in their place he has asked the US commerce department to produce recommendations to protect the data of people in the US from “foreign adversaries”. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, which scrutinises business deals with non-US companies, is also reportedly conducting a security review of TikTok.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr during an interview said that he doesn’t believe “anything other than a ban” would be sufficient to protect Americans’ data from collection by Chinese companies and authorities.
Earlier this year in a letter to Republican senators,TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, said a “narrow set of non-sensitive” US user data could be viewed by foreign employees if approved by a US-based TikTok security team. He further added that none of the data is shared with the Chinese government officials.
The privacy policy update goes live on December 2 and applies to the UK, the European Economic Area, and Switzerland.
TikTok on need for data sharing
The purpose of giving employees access to data, TikTok says, is to ensure that users’ experience of the platform is “consistent, enjoyable and safe”. It adds that data can be used to conduct checks on aspects of the platform, including the performance of its algorithms, which recommend content to users, and detect vexatious automated accounts. Earlier too, TikTok has acknowledged that some user data is accessed by employees of the company’s parent, ByteDance, in China.
TikTok continues to be under scanner in the US
The Chinese app is facing rough weather in the US too despite its huge popularity. The US President, Joe Biden, scrapped executive orders from Donald Trump asking for the sale of TikTok’s US business. However, in their place he has asked the US commerce department to produce recommendations to protect the data of people in the US from “foreign adversaries”. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, which scrutinises business deals with non-US companies, is also reportedly conducting a security review of TikTok.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr during an interview said that he doesn’t believe “anything other than a ban” would be sufficient to protect Americans’ data from collection by Chinese companies and authorities.
Earlier this year in a letter to Republican senators,TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, said a “narrow set of non-sensitive” US user data could be viewed by foreign employees if approved by a US-based TikTok security team. He further added that none of the data is shared with the Chinese government officials.
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