CHINA-ECONOMY: EUROPEAN CONSUMER RIGHTS ORGANISATION FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST TIKTOK
The European Consumer Organization filed a complaint with the European Commission on February 17, accusing the popular short-video app TikTok of violating the rights of users and exposing underage viewers to inappropriate material. The complaint jeopardizes TikTok’s standing in the 27-nation market, which supplies roughly one-seventh of the ByteDance Ltd.-owned app’s total users worldwide. It also puts the company at risk of being fined as much as 4% of its global annual sales under EU data protection rules. In a statement issued on February 17, Monique Goyens, Director General of the European Consumer Organization said “TikTok is letting its users down by breaching their rights on a massive scale.”
(Comment: TikTok's sister app Douyin now has more than half a billion monthly active users of its video search function.)
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