TikTok, China & Your Private Information
The Emily Show
Baker Media, LLC.
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
TikTok currently has been installed 1.45 billion times since launching, and it isn’t slowing down. The parent company behind TikTok, ByteDance, Ltd, a Chinese company is alleged to be worth between 75 Billion and 78 Billion. Despite the value the legal troubles for this company are mounting in the United States. From an investigation by the Army for privacy concerns to an FTC settlement for COPPA violations to multiple private lawsuits over privacy issues, including allegations that TikTok isn’t being clear with how much identifiable personal information they actually have.
You can find more information about the stories we talked about:
TikTok settles children’s data lawsuit one day after it was filed
TikTok Sued Over Claims That App 'Tracked, Collected and Disclosed' the Data of Children
TikTok’s parent company sued for collecting data on kids
California student suing TikTok for allegedly sending data to China
TikTok funneled personal data to China, lawsuit alleges
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| 0:00.0 | Tic-Tock, lawsuits, and China. |
| 0:03.3 | Who could have guessed that this app that is taking off like wildfire |
| 0:08.0 | in junior highs all across the world |
| 0:10.3 | would be a shit show? |
| 0:12.4 | Oh, wait, all of us. |
| 0:15.0 | We're going to talk about Tik-Tok shipping your kids information to China right now. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey there, this is Get Legit Lawn shit, and I'm Emily D Baker, badass lawyer for online business. |
| 0:27.0 | I've been a licensed attorney for over 15 years, and I'm a former prosecutor. |
| 0:31.0 | So yeah, I know some shit, and we're going to talk about the legal |
| 0:34.4 | shit you need to know. But don't worry, this is not another boring business podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | So let's get started. |
| 0:56.8 | Before we jump in to talking about Tic-Toc, I want to take a minute to thank today's sponsor, Audible. If you have followed me online for any period of time, you know that my family is obsessed with audible. My son and I are both |
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