#Shou Chew

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Go back to the top of this article and reread that transcript of Rep. Buddy Carter grilling TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. Now, Carter is a dunderhead, but he’s dunderheaded in a way that illuminates just how bad COPPA enforcement is, and has been, for 25 long years.

Carter thinks that TikTok is using biometric features to enforce COPPA. He imagines that TikTok is doing some kind of high-tech phrenology to make sure that every user is over 13 (“I find that [you aren’t capturing facial images] hard to believe. It is our understanding that they’re looking at the eyes. How do you determine what age they are then?”).

Chew corrects the Congressdunderhead from Georgia, explaining that TikTok uses “age-gating”: “when you ask the user what age they are.”

That is the industry-wide practice for enforcing COPPA: every user is presented with a tick-box that says “I am over 13.” If they tick that box, the company claims it has satisfied the requirement not to spy on kids.

But if COPPA were meaningfully enforced, companies would simply have to stop spying on everyone, because there are no efficient ways to verify the age of users at the scale needed for general operation of a website.

-How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?

#privacy #corruption #coppa #Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act #gdpr #general data protection regulation #iab #tiktok #rep buddy carter #Shou Chew #commercial surveillance #ad targeting #ads #ad-tech #cold war 2.0 #sinophobia #ireland #eu #european federalism #corporate crime jurisdictions #defund the (corporate) police #age-gating

[kirain]

This is truly mesmerising.

"Mr. Chew, if I plug my toaster into the wall, will it have access to my electricity?"

"Mr. Chew, what's your opinion on the laws of thermodynamics and do they prove God doesn't exist?"

"Mr. Chew, would it be a stretch for this congress to assume that you support eugenics?"

"Mr. Chew, if mankind develops the technology to travel to and colonize Mars by 2030, will you personally finance a twenty-team crew to fly to the planet and access the wifi there, and will you sell that data to China?"

"Mr. Chew, if I accidentally leave my phone at home while I'm at work, will your app sleep with my wife?"

#tiktok #tiktok ban #american congress #congressmen #is this a joke #China #shou chew

[sunshineandlyrics]

🤦🏻‍♀️

#this is so cringe #I think he is Singaporean #not all Asians are Chinese #not all Asians are members of the Chinese communist party #shou chew #much respect for the calm way he answers these stupid questions #the straits times #tom cotton #tiktok #racism #February 2024 #mine

[whaleofatjme1920]

Shou Chew, CEO of tiktok, getting “questioned” by congress is quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen in real time. It plays like a South Park episode.

#These people don’t understand how wifi works and he has the patience of a SAINT #you know they wanted to be xenophobic and sinophobic #I love to hate on tiktok but COME ON lol #tiktok #shou chew #fish out of water convos #I didn’t want to feel bad for a billionaire but here I am

[m1sseveryth1ng]

I paused a TikTok video right after he got asked if the app connects to the home wifi

That’s a “wtf are these bitches saying” face if I’ve ever even one

#tiktok #TikTok Congressional hearings #this man is so done #done with this shit #wtf #Shou Chew #TikTok ceo

[christiandomme]

I am watching the congressional hearing with tiktok ceo Shou Chew right now and it is super interesting. Slightly painful but very interesting.

#tiktok ban #congressional hearing #shou chew #tiktok ceo hearing #shou zi chew

[dreaming-for-an-escape]

I know he’s watching all these edits of him. And you know what? He should. They’re absolute 🔥🤣

#tiktok #tiktok ceo #shou chew

[rpodyssey]

TikTok ban bill 🇺🇸🗽⚖️ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSFcaJQ1f

#TikTok #tech giants #vertical ​short video #social media platform #shou chew

[valiantlycleverinfluencer]

I know we say tiktok is going through everything that Tumblr did but I feel that it must be stated again in the thirstification of shou chew

#remember when we called David Karp daddy #we’ll now it’s daddy shou #he’s way hotter than karp ever was just saying haha #shou chew #tiktok

[itlearns]

And THATS The United States Congress? Oh my God.

#usa #usa Congress #tiktok #if you're American shut the fuck up #shou chew #trump is not my president

[mostlysignssomeportents]

In 1998, Congress passed the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits online service providers from collecting the data of children under the age of 13 without parental consent.

COPPA is remarkable, first because it is one of the very, very few federal privacy guarantees enacted by Congress, an exclusive club whose founding member is the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988, passed by Members of Congress panicked at the thought of video-store clerks leaking their porn rental histories.

But the other remarkable thing about COPPA is how poorly it is enforced.

In this regard, COPPA is very similar to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s 2016 landmark privacy law. The GDPR has many more moving parts than COPPA, as befits a general data-protection regulation, but at core, the GDPR seeks to incinerate the absurd fiction at the root of commercial surveillance: namely, that we “consent” to commercial surveillance by clicking “I agree” on long, unreadable terms of service.

Under the GDPR, companies that want to collect, sell or process your data need to explain themselves, clearly: they have to tell you what they’re collecting and how they plan on using it.

-How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?

#privacy #corruption #coppa #Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act #gdpr #general data protection regulation #iab #tiktok #rep buddy carter #Shou Chew #commercial surveillance #ad targeting #ads #ad-tech #cold war 2.0 #sinophobia #ireland #eu #european federalism #corporate crime jurisdictions #defund the (corporate) police #age-gating

[robpegoraro]

Still tip-toeing in TikTok--and I may never get past that stage

Watching Thursday’s Congressional grilling of TikTok CEO Shou Chew left me convinced of two things: that I am glad not to work in comms for that social platform, and that I may never get the hang of that social platform. My engagement so far with the ByteDance-owned app could make my apathetic Snapchat use look clingy. I put TikTok’s app on my iPad three and a half years ago, using Apple’s “Sign…

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#ByteDance #Chinese Communist Party #data brokers #get off my lawn #Instagram Reels #Shou Chew #sign in with Apple #TikTok #TikTok hearing #TikTok privacy #TikTok security #WeChat

[almondpiglet]

simple style/chibi for mobtober

a very small shou! dont lose him!!

#he might chew ur wires #my art #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #shou suzuki #ritsu kageyama #ritshou #mobtober

[m00ngbin]

AHHHHHH CHAPTER 18!!!! CHAPTER 18 OF TFS!!!!!!

#tfs :3 #tfs my beloved #have i ever mentioned #how much i LOVE this fic? #because i do #i love it SO SO MUCH #im trying to make a whole thing of shou drawings and fanart in honor of this fic but his HAIR #it stresses me out so badly i cant get it to look right #so all of the shous i have rn are bald #isnt that so sad #he doesnt deserve that #anyways #HERES TO TFS SHOU AND HIS INFINITE AMOUNT OF STRESS #i love when people put him in Situations and chew on him like a dog toy

[pawapoppet]

Mob Psycho in which all the psychs are mobbing

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #kageyama shigeo #mob psycho #reigen arataka #hanazawa teruki #kageyama ritsu #serizawa katsuya #suzuki shou #yes this is the thing ive been chewing on for a week #hands it to you like new chew toys #pawa art

[mostlysignssomeportents]

As Chew explained to Carter, the company can offer a broad range of services to its users “locally on your local device,” and the data needed to offer those services can be “deleted after the use.”

For example, TikTok could store the list of accounts you follow on your device (with an end-to-end encrypted backup on its servers so you can use multiple devices and recover your subscriptions when you lose or break your device). Your device could request those users’ latest posts from TikTok, without TikTok retaining a log of those requests after it fulfills them.

TikTok could suggest posts to you by having your device compile a list of keywords and other characteristics from the videos you interact with and then request more videos that match those criteria — again, without TikTok logging those requests on its central servers.

Doing so would limit TikTok’s profits —and that’s the point. COPPA weighs private profit against the public cost of data collection and processing and puts its thumb on the scale for the latter.

-How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids?

#privacy #corruption #coppa #Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act #gdpr #general data protection regulation #iab #tiktok #rep buddy carter #Shou Chew #commercial surveillance #ad targeting #ads #ad-tech #cold war 2.0 #sinophobia #ireland #eu #european federalism #corporate crime jurisdictions #defund the (corporate) police #age-gating