Douyin was punished by South Korea for collecting under-user data:

Douyin was punished by South Korea for collecting underage user data.

Popular video-sharing application vibrato overseas edition of TikTok, settle US government allegations of illegal underage collect user information in the last year, The app violates South Korean laws in terms of privacy violations.

According to the Korea Yonhap News Agency, the Korea Communications Commission (Korea Communications Commission, abbreviated as KCC) announced on Wednesday (July 15) that TikTok was fined 186 million won (about US$154,000) because it is In violation of the Korea Telecom Law, data for users under 14 years of age were collected without parental consent.

South Korean regulators found that about 6,000 data from underage users were collected illegally. In addition, when TikTok did not notify the user correctly in advance, it transmitted the local user's data to servers in Singapore and the United States.

According to the Korea Yonhap News Agency, the Korea Communications Commission began investigating TikTok in October last year.

In February last year, TikTok paid a fine of $5.7 million to settle the U.S. government’s accusation of illegally collecting personal information of users under the age of 13, which violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (abbreviation) For COPPA).

TikTok application is called "in mainland China vibrato ", "byte beating" by a Beijing technology company (ByteDance) was launched in 2016. It is very popular abroad, with an estimated 800 million monthly active users worldwide. According to data reported by Korea Yonhap News Agency, as of December 2019, South Korea had 3.4 million TikTok users.

According to US market research company eMarketer, citing data provided by media analysis company Comscore, as of March this year, in the United States, TikTok had approximately 52.5 million unique visitors.

Despite paying huge fines in the United States, TikTok may still not fully comply with the settlement agreement it reached in 2019.

Reuters reported last week that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice are investigating allegations filed by several American advocacy groups in May that TikTok continues to violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection bill".

On May 14, the American advocacy group "Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood" (abbreviated as CCFC) and other members of the American Child Protection, Consumer and Privacy Group Coalition filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission. TikTok continues to violate the law, including the failure to delete the personal information of minor users obtained before the settlement.

In recent months, many US congressmen have expressed concern about TikTok. On May 21st, Republican MPs Greg Walden and Cathy McMorris Rodgers wrote a letter to Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of "Byte Beat" , Asking him to answer 22 questions before June 5.

One of the questions is whether TikTok shared the information it collected about Americans with the Communist Party of China or any Chinese state-owned entity.

The CCP’s National Intelligence Law came into effect in 2017, allowing Beijing authorities to access all data stored in the country.

Last week, US Secretary of State Pompeo (Mike Pompeo), said Trump government "certainly consider" No TikTok. On Wednesday (July 15), after Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows commented, the White House hinted that a ban might be introduced soon.

Last month, the Indian government banned 59 mobile applications, most of them Chinese, and TikTok was one of them. According to a press release from the Indian government, these applications "are engaged in activities that undermine India's sovereignty and integrity, safeguard India, national security and public order."

 

 

Apple's mobile phone Siri saves the life of a 1-year-old baby in Australia:

Dog Caddy suddenly barked at the sleeping 2-year-old boy late at night. Schematic. 

Apple’s Siri voice assistant can directly use the way of speaking, instructing the mobile phone to perform countless actions such as making calls, sending text messages, setting alarm clocks, asking the time, etc., that is, As long as the phone owner opens his mouth, Siri will complete the task. Now it has one more function: help.

The Mashable website reported on June 6 that Australian woman Stacey Gleeson used the Siri function of an Apple phone to save the life of her one-year-old daughter.

On the day of the incident, the one-year-old daughter was sleeping in the room. Stacey was busy with housework in another place. When she noticed that the daughter stopped breathing through the baby monitor, she rushed to the daughter's room immediately.

At that time, her daughter's skin color was blue, and the situation was quite urgent. At this time, she discovered that her mobile phone was not around, and called: "Siri, call an ambulance!"

This comedy ending story reminds us that we may want to turn on the voice assistant functions such as "Hey Siri" on Apple phones or "OK Google" on Android devices. If the phone does not have this feature, you can download it from the app on the phone.

Truck crushes Apple Siri alarm to save American man's life:
When a man repairing a truck in Tennessee, the United States, he was forced to move under a truck weighing 2,300 kilograms because the jack collapsed. Apple’s Siri voice assistant saved his life at a critical juncture.

18-year-old Sam. Lei said that when he repaired the truck on July 2, the jack collapsed, pressing him under the car where others would not easily see and hear. When he tried to escape, he heard the activation of Siri, the iPhone in his pants pocket. He told the phone: "Dial 911", and then the phone automatically sent a distress message.

After hearing the distress message, the operator of the local 911 command center initially thought that the phone in someone's pocket had been dialed by mistake, but then she heard Lei's scream for help, so she sent personnel to the rescue.

The operator said that the mobile phone signal provided the approximate location of Lei, while Lei himself shouted out his exact location.

Firefighters rushed there and lifted the truck. The mine was pressed under the truck for about 40 minutes.

The doctor said that Lei's rib fracture, kidney bruise, body cut, concussion, and burn of one arm, but the injury did not deteriorate.