TECH Pompeo says U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

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Pompeo says U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United States is "certainly looking at" banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok, suggesting it shared information with the Chinese government, a charge it denied.
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Pompeo says U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

July 6, 2020 / 10:41 PM / Updated 3 hours ago

(Reuters) - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United States is “certainly looking at” banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok, suggesting it shared information with the Chinese government, a charge it denied.

“I don’t want to get out in front of the President (Donald Trump), but it’s something we’re looking at,” Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News.

U.S. lawmakers have raised national security concerns over TikTok’s handling of user data, saying they were worried about Chinese laws requiring domestic companies “to support and cooperate with intelligence work controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.”

Pompeo said Americans should be cautious in using the short-form video app owned by China-based ByteDance.

“Only if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party,” Pompeo remarked when asked if he would recommend people to download TikTok.

In response to his comments, TikTok told Reuters it has never provided user data to China.

“We have no higher priority than promoting a safe and secure app experience for our users. We have never provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we do so if asked”, TikTok said in an emailed statement.

The app, which is not available in China, has sought to distance itself from its Chinese roots to appeal to a global audience.

Pompeo’s remarks also come amid increasing U.S.-China tensions over the handling of the coronavirus outbreak, China’s actions in the former British colony of Hong Kong and a nearly two-year trade war.

TikTok was recently banned in India along with 58 other Chinese apps after a border clash between India and China.

Reuters reported late on Monday that TikTok would exit the Hong Kong market within days, after China’s establishment of a sweeping new national security law for the city.

Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with the guarantee of freedoms and far-reaching autonomy under a “one country, two systems” formula agreed with Britain.
 
Melodi

Melodi

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Based on what Lisa Parker said in the Artists having trouble with China post I made, it looks like they would also need to ban Facebook, Twitter, and Email.

From Lisa's reported experience on the other thread, the Chinese are using ALL of them to track back to people or their products when they wish to and then stealing that information.

In her case, it is to make copycat products, but if they were looking for the personal information I'm sure they could get that too and I'm sure that Pompeo knows this.

edited to add link to the thread I mentioned:INTL - Artist's Feedback on Why China is a Huge Problem for Artist/Copywritten material
 
packyderms_wife

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Neither here nor there.
Melodi said:
Based on what Lisa Parker said in the Artists having trouble with China post I made, it looks like they would also need to ban Facebook, Twitter, and Email.

From Lisa's reported experience on the other thread, the Chinese are using ALL of them to track back to people or their products when they wish to and then stealing that information.

In her case, it is to make copycat products, but if they were looking for the personal information I'm sure they could get that too and I'm sure that Pompeo knows this.

edited to add link to the thread I mentioned:INTL - Artist's Feedback on Why China is a Huge Problem for Artist/Copywritten material
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China's stealing artists images, whether they are licensed or not here in the states or Europe, has been a major problem for about ten plus years now. Artists have to be diligent surfing Etsy, Ebay, Amazon, Wish, etc., constantly checking to see if their images have been stolen. It's a lot of work.
 
Melodi

Melodi

Disaster Cat
packyderms_wife said:
China's stealing artists images, whether they are licensed or not here in the states or Europe, has been a major problem for about ten plus years now. Artists have to be diligent surfing Etsy, Ebay, Amazon, Wish, etc., constantly checking to see if their images have been stolen. It's a lot of work.
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And Lisa told me in a conversation today it doesn't really make sense to even try any longer (especially on her level) because it won't be taken down, the companies will pretend to be in the West someplace and basically, they just don't care.

Which is why she finally retaliated by making her own poster (she never had one like that, the images are all stolen from other artworks, also she doesn't do posters normally) got tons of orders and then had her fans bombard the fake sites with them and with complaints - which outraged them, but of course, isn't stopping them, they just dropped that particular poster.

For about two years there we (her fans) were just reporting every time we saw a rip-off, but basically she can't do anything legally from the UK without spending millions of pounds she doesn't have and the Chinese just ignore it.

Now if FACE CRACK AND AMAZON.CONNED would do something, that would help.

Finding out the Chinese were tracing her art via E-mail complaints was a SHOCK - basically if she complains they just use her e-mail to find more art to copy.
 
Maryh

Maryh

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The Army told my daughter months ago that they were not to use it! Spying or stealing your info was the reason. When she was in China, around 2012, she was told not to take her phone cause if it was left in her room, they would be tracking her for life!
 
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