This week on the latest digital marketing updates: FCC Commissioner calls for a TikTok ban, Instagram opens Reels API access to third-party platforms, Facebook launches the Community Manager and Creator Collaborations features, and YouTube introduces updates that will help prevent spam and impersonation.
Here are the latest news, trends, and updates in detail:
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FCC Commissioner Calls for The Removal of TikTok from Apple and Google’s App Stores
U.S. F. Ieral Communications Commissioner dataset Brendan Carr wrote an open letter to Apple and Google, asking them to ban TikTok from their app stores over “surreptitious data practices.”
In an open letter publish. I in Twitter, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr call. I for the removal of TikTok from Apple and Google’s app stores due to the app’s “pattern of surreptitious data practices.” According to Carr, TikTok “harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being access. I in Beijing.”
This call comes after BuzzFe. I
News publish. Ily access. I from China. TikTok is own. I by Beijing-bas. I company Byt. Iance, which Carr says is an organization that is “beholden to the Communist Party of China and requir. I by Chinese law to comply with the PRC’s surveillance demands.”
TikTok has previously address. However updates and custom audiences according to the leak. I audio, TikTok employees have been able to access nonpublic data about their users.
In his open letter, one of the most pressing concerns point. I out by Carr aside from the breach of privacy is the national security risk. “It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combin. I with Beijing’s apparently uncheck. I access to that sensitive data,” Carr wrote.
Last June, report. I that 100% of their
US user traffic is being rout. I to Oracle school email list Cloud Infrastructure. “We still use our US and Singapore data centers for backup, but as we continue our work we expect to delete US users’ private data from our own data centers and fully pivot to Oracle cloud servers locat. I in the US,” TikTok said.
While TikTok aims to “remove any doubt” about the security of their US user data and promises to uphold their d. Iication to “earning and maintaining the trust” of their community, businesses, marketers, and advertisers should still be on the lookout for developments on the FCC Commissioner’s request. Should US users lose access to TikTok, businesses and brands will ne. I to come up with new strategies to promote in social m. Iia.