{"id":7607,"date":"2022-10-31T05:38:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/tiktok-has-become-a-global-giant-the-us-is-threatening-to-rein-it-in\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T05:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:38:01","slug":"tiktok-has-become-a-global-giant-the-us-is-threatening-to-rein-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/tiktok-has-become-a-global-giant-the-us-is-threatening-to-rein-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok has become a global giant. The US is threatening to rein it in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The social media platform has had its fair share of run-ins with misinformation, data privacy and child safety concerns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/series\/the-tiktok-takeover\">Read the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For much of the tech industry, this summer was a season of economic uncertainty \u2013 one that led to a drop in Bitcoin prices, hundreds of laid off workers, and a hiring freeze. For video platform TikTok, it was also the summer that US regulators crossed the aisle to come to something of a consensus: it was time for stricter rules.<\/p>\n<p>Since Buzzfeed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/emilybakerwhite\/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access\">reported<\/a> in June that employees of TikTok\u2019s Chinese parent company ByteDance had access to US consumer data, TikTok has been the focus of rare bipartisan calls for regulation and inquiry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/30\/tiktok-regulation-data-privacy-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a87f79656b0ed5aacc37323c1a5535a50009d99c\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=25310c03e10d47b5ae3be51bf2fd4a4f\" title=\"TikTok has become a global giant. The US is threatening to rein it in\" \/>The social media platform has had its fair share of run-ins with misinformation, data privacy and child safety concerns<br \/>\nRead the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok<br \/>\nFor much of the tech industry, this summer was a season of economic uncertainty \u2013 one that led to a drop in Bitcoin prices, hundreds of laid off workers, and a hiring freeze. For video platform TikTok, it was also the summer that US regulators crossed the aisle to come to something of a consensus: it was time for stricter rules.<br \/>\nSince Buzzfeed reported in June that employees of TikTok\u2019s Chinese parent company ByteDance had access to US consumer data, TikTok has been the focus of rare bipartisan calls for regulation and inquiry. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The social media platform has had its fair share of run-ins with misinformation, data privacy and child safety concerns Read the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok For much of the tech industry, this summer was a season of economic uncertainty \u2013 one that led to a drop in Bitcoin &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/31\/tiktok-has-become-a-global-giant-the-us-is-threatening-to-rein-it-in\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TikTok has become a global giant. The US is threatening to rein it in<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7608,"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\/7607"}],"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=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}