The app, owned by Chinese company ByteDance will no longer work in Hong Kong. The decision is due to the new Chinese law on national security. This became known to the Agency
Reuters.
Head TikTok Kevin Meyer had previously stated that no user data is stored in China. In addition, TikTok had said he will not run queries from the Chinese government about censorship of content and
do not give the Chinese government access to user data.
Hong Kong for the TikTok is a small, unprofitable market. The app has 150,000 users in the region, but only in the first quarter of 2020 TikTok has been downloaded over 2 billion times.
TikTok has been developed so that it could not obtain access to mainland China. It’s part of a strategy to attract a global audience. For China at ByteDance is the same
Douyin app for sharing short videos.
Now ByteDance no plans to launch Douyin on the Hong Kong market.
IT market, legislation, social networking
