ISLAMABAD – Social media app TikTok launched a new interesting feature forusers across the World.
TikTok is launching a content moderation centre in a bid to boosttransparency, the Chinese company said on Wednesday, as it faces scrutinyfrom U.S. lawmakers who have accused it of sharing user data with theChinese government.
The “Transparency Center” is to be opened at TikTok’s Los Angeles officewhere external experts will oversee its operations, the company said in itsblog bit.ly/2vNzjsv.
The center would later provide insights into the app’s source code, theclosely guarded internal instructions of the software, and offer moredetails on privacy and security.
Several U.S. agencies that deal with national security and intelligenceissues have banned employees from using the app, whose popularity amongteenagers has been growing rapidly.
According to a 2017 Chinese law, companies operating in the country arerequired to cooperate with the government on national intelligence.
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The U.S. Navy banned the app in December from its government-issued mobiledevices, calling it a “cybersecurity threat”. Later that month, TikTokpublished its first transparency report on the “volume and nature” ofgovernmental requests for its users’ account information.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley called for a blanket ban on the app for allfederal employees last week, representing a broader concern among lawmakersabout collection and sharing of data on U.S. users with the Chinesegovernment.
The company has however refuted claims and has said that U.S. user data isstored in the United States and that China does not have jurisdiction overcontent that is not in China.
TikTok, owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, allows users to create andshare short videos with special effects, and is hugely popular in SoutheastAsia, including India.
