One reason Brussels risks falling behind is that security remains the responsibility of individual member nations, not one ceded to the European Union, Ms. Schaake said. “TikTok confronts Europe with the weaknesses of its digital and national security policies,” she said. But most Europeans mostly still see TikTok not as a security threat, but as a risk to privacy. Even if the White House-orchestrated TikTok sale goes through, the European operations will remain under the ownership of the Chinese parent company, ByteDance. TikTok uses both facial recognition and artificial intelligence, important technologies that are not regulated by the United States or the European Union.

Source: International New York Times September 11, 2020 19:41 UTC