Day: June 20, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department won’t pursue allegations that ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok misled U.S. consumers about their data security in a forthcoming suit accusing the company of children’s privacy violations, according to people familiar with the decision.
The department is preparing to file a consumer protection lawsuit against TikTok later this year on behalf of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which investigated the case, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing interagency communications.
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The FTC gave the Justice Department a referral with two parts. The Justice Department plans to drop one part of the complaint alleging that TikTok deceived U.S. consumers by failing to inform them that Beijing-based employees of its parent company, ByteDance, would have access to their personal and financial information, the people said. The DOJ plans to proceed with allegations the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which bars collecting data about children under the age of 13.
TikTok has faced enormous scrutiny over the security of user data and ties between its parent company, ByteDance, and the Chinese government. President Joe Biden in April signed a law that would ban TikTok unless it is sold within a year. The company is challenging the law in the courts.
The department declined to comment on the decision to drop the allegations that TikTok misled consumers about data privacy. The FTC declined to comment on the DOJ’s decision.
When the Justice Department represents another agency in court, it has the authority to determine the best litigation strategy to ensure there are no conflicts with national security concerns or other cases.
“Consistent with our normal approach, the Justice Department consulted with FTC in advance of this referral and will continue to do so as we consider the claims,” spokesman Terrence Clark said. “As always, the department will be guided by the facts and the law as well as our responsibility to protect the American people.”
When the FTC seeks monetary penalties — such as when a firm violates a settlement agreement — it must refer the matter to the Justice Department for litigation. The same goes for cases the FTC investigates under federal consumer protection laws related to children’s online privacy.
The FTC recommended the agency sue TikTok over the two violations and took the unusual step of making its referral public on June 18. The FTC and Justice Department have been at odds over recent consumer protection cases involving Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.
TikTok in 2019 paid $5.7 million to settle similar FTC allegations that it had illegally collected personal information from children. As part of that, the company agreed to provide annual reports to the agency about its data collection and compliance with the settlement. Those reports helped lead to the current case.
The DOJ’s Consumer Protection Branch has 45 days from when the FTC makes a referral to decide whether it wishes to litigate or send the case back to the FTC. The Justice Department almost always opts to take charge of the case as it can retain as much as 3% of the civil penalties it collects.
Earlier this year, the FTC asked Congress to amend the law and allow it to litigate its own cases, saying the process for referring cases to the Justice Department is “badly broken.”
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islamabad — Authorities in northwestern Pakistan reported Thursday that an enraged crowd stormed a police station, seized a detainee facing blasphemy charges and killed him.
The evening violence erupted in Swat District, a popular tourist spot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after local announcements that a tourist had desecrated the Quran. Residents tortured the man before area police took him into custody and moved him to their detention facility.
Witnesses and officials said a mob later gathered outside the police station, demanding the man be swiftly brought to justice for insulting Islam’s holy book. Police used aerial fire to disperse protesters but failed to prevent them from assaulting and setting fire to the building and police vehicles before taking “the suspect away.”
Zahidullah Khan, the district police chief, told local media that the crowd had also set fire to the suspect’s body after beating him to death. He added that the unrest resulted in several injuries.
Videos shared on social media showed a crowd gathered around a burning body in the middle of the street. VOA could not immediately ascertain the veracity of the footage from independent sources.
Khan said police reinforcements later arrived in the area and efforts were under way to defuse the tensions.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in majority-Muslim Pakistan, and mere allegations have led to mobs lynching scores of suspects — even some in police custody. Insulting the Quran or Islamic beliefs is punishable by death under the country’s blasphemy laws, though no one has ever been officially executed.
Last month, hundreds of people gathered in a Christian settlement in the central Pakistani city of Sargodha and killed a Christian man in his early 70s after accusing him of desecrating the Quran.
In August 2023, in a similar blasphemy accusation, thousands of Muslim protesters attacked a Christian neighborhood. They burned scores of properties, including 21 churches, over allegations that two Christian brothers had desecrated the Quran.
Domestic and international rights groups have long demanded Pakistan reform its blasphemy laws, arguing they are often used to fulfill personal vendettas and disputes and intimidate religious minorities.
Critics say that hundreds of suspects, mostly Muslims, are languishing in jails in Pakistan because fear of retaliation from religious groups deters judges from moving their trials forward.
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(NewsNation) — It’s a busy time of the year in rural Oklahoma for lifelong farmers like Larry Williams and his son Colby. It’s hard work that Larry learned from his dad, and Colby now learns from him.
As they’re moving the cattle and harvesting the wheat, it feels so American, yet there’s something nefarious happening not far from their farm with the Chinese.
“You see things that you feel that are suspicious, you know,” said Larry.
“Suspicious” is an understatement to describe what is secretly happening here in Middle America.
Illegal weed-growing operations are being run not by Americans but by the Chinese. Oklahoma law enforcement says they’re shutting down, on average, 15 of the unlawful grow houses every single day. They say the Chinese growers come across the southern U.S.-Mexico border and then travel to Oklahoma to work at the black market grow houses.
“Alright, here’s one of the Chinese places right here,” said Larry. “And they just built this barn in the last eight months, and the door’s open, by the way.”
State law enforcement says drone video from another Oklahoma Chinese grow house shows people rushing to hide marijuana when police showed up, placing the illegal pot in the shed.
For locals, even from the road, it’s easy to spot the Chinese operations by the fences that no one else has in the area, air conditioning units outside the barns, vans used to transport the Chinese migrants to the pot farms and expensive high-voltage electricity hookups to run fans and grow lights.
A large percentage of the black market marijuana consumed on the East Coast is derived from Oklahoma, according to local law enforcement.
The Chinese migrants working the farm, according to neighbors, have been spotted sleeping in garages amid subhuman conditions. Larry told NewsNation that he’s seen them living with no heat when the temperatures dropped well below zero.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond says all of the money made by the Chinese owners is sent back to mainland China.
“The Chinese are not dumb. I mean, they recognize it, and they can exploit and drive behavior of unsuspecting Oklahomans through this cash transaction,” he said.
To Larry, some of his neighbors are sellouts. Not just selling out his community but all of America. Even after the sun goes down, Larry is still working his land.
“I work too hard to see somebody just come in here and make a quick buck,” he said.
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