Last month, media reported that TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy was updated to say the company “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under U.S. laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints.” TikTok’s new policy also states it may “share all of the information we collect with a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of our corporate group.”
This poses enormous challenges for U.S. policymakers—ones that go to the heart of data collection in a globalized world. TikTok’s parent company is Beijing-headquartered—ByteDance—one of China’s technology giants that specializes in artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled social media platforms.
