We never ask TikTok to break data collection laws: China
- March 24, 2023
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China has “never asked and never will ask” companies or individuals to collect information or provide it to them in other countries in violation of local law, a
China has “never asked and never will ask” companies or individuals to collect information or provide it to them in other countries in violation of local law, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said Friday ahead of a possible social media veto. tik tak in the United States.
Mao Ning, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, assured that the Chinese government “attaches great importance to security and privacy protection data in accordance with the law,” when asked at a press conference about TikTok CEO Show Zi Chu’s speech to a US Congressional committee.
A spokeswoman quoted by the Yicai news portal assured Washington is taking the blame for TikTok, “despite not offering any proof” that the app threatens US national security.
According to the official Global Times, today Mao also denounced the possibility of a TikTok ban in the US as “political persecution caused by xenophobia“.
China’s Ministry of Commerce protested this yesterday, assuring that Beijing “would be strongly againstto veto the app after Washington threatened Chinese tech company ByteDance, the developer of the app, with a nationwide ban on the social network unless it sold its stake in the popular app, according to various U.S. media reports.
A spokesperson for Commerce also assured that the sale of TikTok “will be linked to technology exportthat it must “follow administrative licensing procedures under Chinese law.”
Some critics have accused ByteDance of ties to the Chinese Communist Party, though TikTok has denied such allegations, saying it does not censor content or provide the Chinese government with access to its data.
The White House recently gave 30 days to federal agencies Americans will remove the TikTok social network from all government electronic devices.
The European Commission and Council of the European Union have also banned their workers from using TikTok on official phones for security reasons, a decision that has also been criticized by Beijing.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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