TikTok Faces Scrutiny From EU Watchdogs

Chinese video app TikTok’s practices are to be examined by an EU job drive, the bloc’s privateness watchdog mentioned on Wednesday, which additionally warned EU police forces towards utilizing facial recognition software program from US firm Clearview AI. TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, permits customers to create quick movies and has seen its recognition soar in the course of the COVID-19 disaster.

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) mentioned it might arrange a job drive to evaluate TikTok’s actions throughout the bloc after a request from an EU lawmaker involved about its knowledge assortment strategies and safety and privateness dangers.

The job drive will coordinate potential actions and search an summary of TikTok’s processing and practices throughout the EU, the EDPB mentioned in a statement.

Clearview AI scrapes the Internet for publicly obtainable pictures and makes use of facial recognition to determine potential suspects, triggering criticism in Canada and the United States about potential misuse.

“The EDPB has doubts as to whether any Union or Member State law provides a legal basis for using a service such as the one offered by Clearview AI,” the EDPB mentioned.

“The EDPB is therefore of the opinion that the use of a service such as Clearview AI by law enforcement authorities in the European Union would, as it stands, likely not be consistent with the EU data protection regime,” it mentioned.

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