Data risks due to inroads made by US internet companies are as significant as those accompanying the digital dragon
It isn’t often that a Chinese firm gets a chance to argue that its fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression has been infringed. But that’s what the lawyers arguing for China’s ByteDance, which owns the trendy short-video application TikTok, had to plead in Indian courts against a decision to ban the app that’s wildly popular among teenagers. The government had to step in to tell Google and Apple to yank TikTok off their app stores after a bench of the Madras High Court directed it to stop further downloads. The contention was that TikTok encourages pornography and paedophilia. This ban has since been lifted.
(This story appears in the 10 May, 2019 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)