{"id":31728,"date":"2021-02-16T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31728"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:14:03","slug":"tiktok-faces-more-data-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31728","title":{"rendered":"TikTok faces more data privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok was hit with European regulatory complaints on Tuesday over the platform\u2019s processing of user data, as well as its efforts to protect children from inappropriate content.<\/p>\n<p>The European Consumer Organization BEUC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bdpbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmppdcccz_ljnmjjgkgrmnmgjkzznq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bdpbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmppdcccz_ljnmjjgkgrmnmgjkzznq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613606704788000&amp;usg=AFQjCNErVHKnLTl5-hMGxgMenTL4WxR21w\">filed the complaints<\/a>\u00a0with the European Commission, and consumer organizations in 15 countries have alerted their authorities and urged investigations into TikTok\u2019s conduct, according to the group.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint alleges aspects of TikTok\u2019s terms of service are \u201cunclear, ambiguous and favour TikTok to the detriment of its users,\u201d and that the company \u201cfails to protect children and teenagers from hidden advertising and potentially harmful content on its platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the BEUC accused TikTok of breaching European Consumer rights by not clearly informing users about what data is collected and for what purpose, as required under the EU\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation Law.<\/p>\n<p>A TikTok spokesperson said the company welcomes a meeting with the BEUC to \u201clisten to their concerns\u201d and is open to hearing how it can improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok was hit with European regulatory&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31729,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31728\/revisions\/31729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}