New Chinese export rules complicate TikTok sale
China has updated its export control rules to include several sensitive technologies. One of the technologies added as needing an export control license sounded much like TikTok’s personalised recommendation engine, New York Times reported. The new rule would mean that the Chinese ByteDance would need a license to sell its TikTok technology to a US company.
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