https://www.scmp.com/rss/515428/feed Tonghui Zhu is an associate professor of law at Nankai University School of Law and a director of the academic department of the Beijing CloudEvidence International Data Security Forensic Centre. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In the ongoing uproar over TikTok’s perceived threat to the United States, we have lost sight of the issue most relevant to ordinary users of the platform – the vulnerability of their personal data. Two cases of data misuse have made headlines so far: TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, admitted to inappropriately obtaining the data of two reporters, one from BuzzFeed and one from the Financial Times. Disappointingly, there has been no discussion of the lawsuits those reporters could... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3217079/why-chinas-strong-data-privacy-laws-should-reassure-tiktok-bytedance-sceptics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3217079/why-chinas-strong-data-privacy-laws-should-reassure-tiktok-bytedance-sceptics?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Apr 2023 17:00:14 +0000