TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew on a visit to Brussels on Tuesday sought to reassure the European Union the app would respect the bloc's increasingly stringent tech rules and commitments to privacy and child safety.
The short-video app, which is owned by Chinese technology conglomerate ByteDance, has for the last three years worked to counter U.S. concerns over whether the personal data of its citizens can be accessed and its content manipulated by China's Communist Party or any other entity under Beijing's influence.TikTok user data of two journalists to try to identify the source of information leaks to the media.
"At the meeting the parties also discussed GDPR and matters of privacy and data transfer obligations with a reference to the recent press reporting on aggressive data harvesting and surveillance in the U.S," it said. Values and Transparency Commissioner Vera Jourova listed her concerns to Chew, among them the protection of Europeans' personal data, child safety and the spread of Russian disinformation on the platform as well as the transparency of political advertising.
"I count on TikTok to fully execute its commitments to go the extra mile in respecting EU law and regaining trust of European regulators," she said in a statement after the meeting. EU justice chief Didier Reynders told Chew that TikTok could do more to remove hate content on its platform."It's a top priority for us to be ready for this," its vice-president for public policy, Europe, Theo Bertram, said in a tweet.
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