Temu, Xiaomi, AliExpress, Shein, WeChat, and TikTok are in breach of EU laws, say experts. Here's what we know so far.
The fate of 170 million TikTok users is now in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump.On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law that requires TikTok to be sold to a U.S. company or be banned by Sunday,
The messaging app is dominant among users in the Chinese diaspora, and it features heavy censorship and surveillance.
Noyb, which stands for None Of Your Business, has previously filed similar complaints against major US tech companies like Apple, Google, and Meta.
TikTok’s time in the United States is counting down. But Washington is only the latest government to impose restrictions on the video app.
RedNote has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a likely imminent ban on the short video app in the United States.
The decision came a week after the justices heard a First Amendment challenge to a law aimed at the wildly popular short-form video platform used by 170 million Americans that the government fears could be influenced by China.
EU privacy complaints have been lodged against TikTok and five other Chinese companies, raising concerns over data protection practices.
With the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the law banning TikTok beginning Jan. 19th, what happens next is up to incoming POTUS Donald Trump.
Non-profit privacy advocacy group "None of Your Business" (noyb) has filed six complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat, and Xiaomi, for unlawfully transferring European user's data to China and infringing European Union's general data protection regulation (GDPR).
As the fate of widely popular short-form video app TikTok hung in the balance this week, creators, users and social media experts lamented the cultural and economic losses U.S. users could experience if the app is banned this weekend.
Noyb, the Austria-based European Center for Digital Rights, has filed complaints against six Chinese companies over alleged violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The accused firms include AliExpress, Shein, Temu, TikTok, WeChat and Xiaomi.