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TikTok’s forced sale won’t lessen global privacy concerns over personal-data use
14 August 2020 00:00
Duration: 16:43
TikTok has taken the world by storm, with the video-sharing app’s appeal among teenagers making its Chinese owner, ByteDance, into a global tech player. But there’s trouble brewing, with concerns mounting over TikTok’s use and storage of personal data, along with fears that the Chinese government could gain access to that data. Now, US President Donald Trump has told the ByteDance that it must either sell TikTok or shut down the app entirely. Microsoft has emerged as a leading candidate to buy at least part of the company, but that won’t be enough to put to rest global privacy concerns over TikTok’s data use.
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James Panichi Senior Editor, Asia Pacific

James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the... Read more
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Amy is responsible for the coverage of an array of regulatory and litigation issues pertaining to the Internet, including privacy, data security and antitrust. Formerly a legal reporter for the ALM media group, Miller has closely followed legal trends in Silicon Valley and covered corporate legal departments for online and print publications including The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and The Recorder. Miller is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is an... Read more
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Wooyoung Lee is a correspondent based in MLex’s Seoul office, South Korea, covering antitrust, privacy and data security, mergers and acquisitions and financial services. Wooyoung has more than a decade of experience in journalism, public policy and research. She has worked and written for news outlets including The Korea Herald, Al Jazeera International, Bloomberg BNA, Monocle, among others.She worked as a foreign service officers for policy and research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of... Read more