Huge or maybe green if you can kick its fictions of coal and Nuclear Power. Welcome to you business asia im stephen beards in berlin thanks for watching us Class Action Lawsuit claims that chinese video sharing app ticktock secretly transferred vast amounts of user data to chinese servers the lawsuit filed in california accuses tech talk of collecting the information without user content consent rather saying it could be used to identify profile and track customers. Has become hugely popular with teenagers since it launched 2 years ago last month to hit 1500000000 downloads thats already more than instagram. And for more on this lets bring in rob watts hes been looking into this rob 1st off for months to give what is to talk so take talk is the International Version of a chinese doll un and its a simple concept uses post 15 2nd video up to 15 2nd videos most like it pays to
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huge or maybe green if you can kick it s fictions of coal and nuclear power. welcome to you business asia i m stephen beard s in berlin thanks for watching us class action lawsuit claims that chinese video sharing app tick-tock secretly transferred vast amounts of user data to chinese servers the lawsuit filed in california accuses tech talk of collecting the information without user content consent rather saying it could be used to identify profile and track customers. has become hugely popular with teenagers since it launched 2 years ago last month to hit 1500000000 downloads that s already more than instagram. and for more on this let s bring in rob watts he s been looking into this rob 1st off for months to give what is to talk so take talk is the international version of a chinese doll un and it s a simple concept uses post 15 2nd video up to 15 2nd videos most like it pays to
means it falls under the purview now what you might ask is well what to what would china want with the states and now we can t speak for. inside the chinese government but we can discuss perhaps. why they might want that i mean for example that data can be used these enormous data sets to try and target advertising to target specific messages that perhaps promotes the chinese government s there also is the possibility that you could scan that data for people who are critical of the chinese government so the concern here is that china would have access to the data versus a facebook or google which already has access to massive amounts of our data yeah exactly that because you ve got a state hacked a state actor that could potentially be a hostile state tax or when you re dealing with the data of overseas citizens this is the 1st time the talk has been in the spotlight at least in the last few weeks of no i mean we ve been talking about the context of us this is a particularly controvers