The French knowledge coverage control body has presented an investigation into TikTok’s privacy policies and child advocacy functions, the newest country to be informed about the credentials of the social media service.
A representative of the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL) told Mobile World Live that the authority is looking for issues such as communication with TikTok users; Methods of exercise of rights and measures of child coverage.
CNIL said its researchers were cooperating with a broader EU-wide investigation into TikTok practices, presented through the European Data Protection Committee in June.
As a component of these efforts, the French authority is reviewing a TikTok plan to build a knowledge centre in the Republic of Ireland, indicating that the company will have to result in the facility satisfying the needs of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). .
TikTok owner ByteDance last week unveiled his goal of investing 420 million euros in its first European knowledge centre, explaining that the Irish site would be “the support and knowledge coverage of TikTok users”.
CNIL added a complaint from a TikTok user in May related to a request to delete a video that had also been part of the resolution to test the service.
A thorough review in the United States led the Trump administration to order national corporations from mid-September to negotiate with ByteDance and Tencent, the parent company of the messaging app WeChat.
Software giant Microsoft has become a potential savior of TikTok by talking about an imaginable takeover of its U.S. operations. And other countries reportedly have also been thrown into the ring.
Last month, Pakistan issued a definitive warning about the content of the app that is deemed inappropriate.
Yanitsa joins Mobile World Live as a London-based journalist. He has more than five years of media experience in his home country, Bulgaria. She began her career as a political journalist, followed by roles as Chief Editor of Array..
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