TikTok Congressional Hearing News and Updates

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  TikTok sues Montana over its controversial new law banning the app

  TechCrunch - Taylor Hatmaker

  Last week, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a law that banned TikTok in the state. Now the company is hitting back with a lawsuit that aims to keep the app available to Montanans. In the complaint, TikTok argues that Montana’s ban violates the Constitution by limiting the company’s right to …

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  What’s going on with the TikTok ban?

  TechCrunch - Taylor Hatmaker

  With a U.S. ban of TikTok looming, it might look like game over for the hit video sharing app, which has taken the world by storm in recent years, reshaping every aspect of culture in the process. Uncertainty abounds right now, but TikTok’s fate is far from sealed. We’ve answered some common …

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  TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  As U.S. lawmakers move forward with their plans for a TikTok ban or forced sale, the app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance is driving another of its social platforms into the Top Charts of the U.S. App Store. ByteDance-owned app Lemon8, an Instagram rival that describes itself as a “lifestyle …

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  France bans recreational apps like TikTok on government devices

  TechCrunch - Romain Dillet

  France is the latest country taking steps to ban TikTok from government-managed devices. Stanislas Guerini, the Minister of Public Transformation and Service, and his services issued a statement announcing the move and the reasoning behind this change. But there’s a twist: Instead of simply banning …

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  Daily Crunch: In SEC filing, Accenture reveals plans to dismiss 19,000 workers over the next 18 months

  TechCrunch - Christine Hall

  Hello, and welcome to your Thursday — aka, the day the TikTok CEO went in front of Congress. Our team has been working hard all day to keep up with everything going on there, and you can read the fruits of their labor in the Big Tech section. Now, on with the news! — Christine and Haje The …

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  TikTok CEO says company scans public videos to determine users’ ages

  TechCrunch - Sarah Perez

  Amid questioning about TikTok’s use of biometrics in today’s Congressional hearing, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew offered some insight into how the company vets potentially underage users on its platform. After denying the app collects body, face or voice data to identify its users — beyond what’s needed …