David Straite, a partner in DiCello Levitt’s nationally recognized Privacy, Technology, and Cybersecurity Practice Group, is quoted in an MLex article, “TikTok divestiture addresses US security concerns, leaves privacy questions.”
Straite highlights the unresolved concerns around how TikTok’s new proposed U.S. ownership will impact its practices for collecting, storing, and using personal data, especially in light of existing privacy litigation and regulatory scrutiny.
Removing the Chinese Communist Party from control of TikTok’s algorithm “is a step in the right direction,” said David Straite, a prominent privacy litigator in New York with the firm Dicello Levitt. But significant questions remain about how TikTok becoming a US entity will affect the company’s data-protection practices.
“To me, the most important question is how this new structure will affect TikTok’s data collection, data storage and data use, and I have not seen that yet addressed,” Straite said.
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“If [TikTok] is now a US company, will that now subject the company to PADFA’s prohibition on transferring personal information to an adversary nation? I don’t know the answer, but I think that’s a really interesting question,” Straite said.
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