French Privacy Watchdog Opens Preliminary Investigation Into TikTok
PARIS—France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Tuesday that it has opened a preliminary investigation into Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok after it received a complaint. TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is already under investigation over privacy concerns by U.S., European Union and Dutch authorities. “A complaint about TikTok was received in May. This complaint is now under investigation,” a CNIL spokesman said, confirming a Bloomberg report. He declined to elaborate on the nature of the complaint or the identity of the plaintiff. In the United States, officials have said that TikTok poses a national security risk because of the personal data it handles. President Donald Trump has threatened to ban TikTok and has given ByteDance 45 days to negotiate a sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations to Microsoft. In June, the…
Microsoft is considering the purchase of popular video sharing app, Tiktok. That’s amid security concerns surrounding its parent company, ByteDance, a Beijing-based tech company with ties to the Chinese regime.
WeChat users in the United States appear divided over Trump鈥檚 ban of the Chinese social media app. Both supporters and opposers set up petitions on the White House petition website.
Shanghai鈥檚 famous TV Tower, which was accidentally given the same name as the city of Hong Kong, was struck with powerful lightning. That鈥檚 after Hong Kong police arrested even more pro-democracy activists.
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai and others have been released on bail. The share price of Lai鈥檚 Apple Daily skyrocketed shortly after, standing as a show of support.
A Chinese official was discovered to have falsified his resume, with somewhat comical results. Based on the fake document, he joined the Chinese army before he was even one year old.
A Chinese state-run TV station is facing consequences following its broadcast of a British citizen鈥檚 forced confession. He made the coerced statement after being drugged, handcuffed, and locked in a cage inside a Chinese prison.
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Kodak Shares Drop After Loan Paused Amid Insider Trading Allegations
The agency had signed a letter of interest with Eastman Kodak on July 28 to provide the company with a $765 million loan. President Donald Trump announced the deal on the same day. The federal loan was intended to launch Kodak Pharmaceuticals to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients for generic drugs, to help reduce the United States’s reliance on other countries. The deal marked Trump’s 33rd use of the Defense Production Act. Kodak shares skyrocketed more than 1,100 percent just two days after the deal’s July 28 announcement. It reached a high of $60 a share on July 29. Kodak shares closed at $14.88 on Friday, and at $10.73 by Monday. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter on Aug. 3 asking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an independent U.S. government agency that regulates…