{"id":6569,"date":"2022-08-03T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/uk-parliament-closes-tiktok-account-after-tory-criticism-of-apps-china-links\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:36:05","slug":"uk-parliament-closes-tiktok-account-after-tory-criticism-of-apps-china-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/uk-parliament-closes-tiktok-account-after-tory-criticism-of-apps-china-links\/","title":{"rendered":"UK parliament closes TikTok account after Tory criticism of app\u2019s China links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs including Tom Tugendhat and Iain Duncan Smith express fears Beijing may be able to access users\u2019 personal data<\/p>\n<p>The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account following objections from senior Conservative politicians about the social video app\u2019s connections to China.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords said they had not been consulted on setting up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ukparliament\">the account<\/a> and would close it immediately.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/03\/uk-parliament-closes-tiktok-account-after-tory-criticism-of-apps-china-links\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1d6fffebb1f5264c452f104b04d4f143e9a154a5\/0_179_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=63dff08482608cc37f8d2964bd2e3426\" title=\"UK parliament closes TikTok account after Tory criticism of app\u2019s China links\" \/>MPs including Tom Tugendhat and Iain Duncan Smith express fears Beijing may be able to access users\u2019 personal data<br \/>\nThe UK parliament has closed its TikTok account following objections from senior Conservative politicians about the social video app\u2019s connections to China.<br \/>\nThe speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords said they had not been consulted on setting up the account and would close it immediately. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs including Tom Tugendhat and Iain Duncan Smith express fears Beijing may be able to access users\u2019 personal data The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account following objections from senior Conservative politicians about the social video app\u2019s connections to China. The speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords said they had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/uk-parliament-closes-tiktok-account-after-tory-criticism-of-apps-china-links\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK parliament closes TikTok account after Tory criticism of app\u2019s China links<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}