Is tiktok banned in india | why tiktok ban in India | tiktok ban in india
- June 30, 2020
- By Ayush Mishra
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JUNE 29 2020, MONDAY
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA has announced officially for the ban of 59 Chinese apps. these apps are accused of stealing user's data and use it for their suspicious purposes. The ministry has also written in context – 59 Chinese mobile apps which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, the security of the state and public order.
The Indian
cybercrime coordination center,
Ministry of home affairs has also sent an exhaustive recommendation for
blocking these malicious apps
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Legal issues
Indonesian temporary block
Indonesia temporarily blocked the
TikTok app on 3 July 2018 amid public concern about illegal content such
as unwanted vidios and blasphemy that
is not good for the youth. The app was unblocked one week later after TikTok
negotiated, making various changes, including removing negative content,
opening a government liaison office, and implementing age restrictions as well
as security mechanisms.
Tencent lawsuits
Tencent's WeChat platform has been accused of
blocking Douyin's videos. In April 2018, Douyin sued Tencent and accused
it of spreading false and damaging information on its WeChat platform,
demanding CNY one million in compensation and an apology. In June
2018, Tencent filed a lawsuit against Toutiao and Douyin in a Beijing court, alleging they had
repeatedly defamed Tencent with negative news and damaged its reputation,
seeking a nominal sum of CNY 1 in compensation and a public apology. In
response, Toutiao filed a complaint the following day against Tencent for
allegedly unfair competition and
asking for CNY 90 million in economic losses.
US COPPA fines
See also: Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act
On 27 February 2019, the United
States Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) fined ByteDance US $5.7 million for collecting
information from minors under the age of 13 in violation of the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act. ByteDance responded by adding a
kids-only mode to TikTok which blocks the upload of videos, the building of
user profiles, direct messaging and commenting on other's videos, while still
allowing the viewing and recording of content.[167] In May 2020, an advocacy group filed a
complaint with the Federal Trade Commission claiming that TikTok had violated
the terms of the February 2019 consent decree, which sparked subsequent Congressional calls
for a renewed FTC investigation.
The provisional ban in India
On 3 April 2019, the Madras High Court while hearing a PIL had
asked the Government of India to
ban the app, citing that it "encourages pornography" and shows
"inappropriate content". The court also noted that children and
minors using the app were at risk of being targeted by sexual predators. The
court further asked broadcast media not to telecast any of those videos from
the app. The spokesperson for TikTok stated that they were abiding by local
laws and were awaiting a copy of the court order before they take action. On
17 April, both Google, and Apple removed TikTok from Google Play and the App
Store. As the court refused to reconsider the ban, the company stated that
they had removed over 6 million videos that violated their content policy and
guidelines.
On 25 April 2019, the ban was lifted
after a court in Tamil Nadu reversed its order of prohibiting downloads of the
app from the App Store and Google Play, following a plea from TikTok developer
Bytedance Technology. India's TikTok ban might have cost the app 15 million new
users.
The permanent ban in India
On 29 June 2020, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology banned
TikTok along with 58 other Chinese apps stating a threat to the sovereignty and security of the country after the military clash in Ladakh.[178] [179]
The Indian government said the decision to ban the apps was
in order to protect the data and privacy of
its 1.3 billion citizens and put a stop to technology that was "stealing
and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to
servers outside India".
Data transfer class-action lawsuit
In November 2019, a class-action lawsuit was filed in California that alleged
that TikTok transferred personally-identifiable information of U.S. persons to
servers located in China owned by Tencent and Alibaba. The lawsuit also accused ByteDance, TikTok's
parent company, of taking user content without their permission. The plaintiff
of the lawsuit, college student Misty Hong, downloaded the app but claimed she
never created an account. She realized a few months later that TikTok has
created an account for her using her information (such as biometric) and made a
summary of her information. The lawsuit also alleged that information was sent
to Chinese tech giant Baidu
SOME OTHER PROBLEMS THAT LED TO THE DOWNFALL OF THIS APP
- CYBERBULLYING
- ADDICTIVE CONCERN
- USER PRIVACY CONCERN
- NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERN
- CENSORSHIP
- INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT
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