The South China Morning Post reports that the proliferation of social media platform Tik Tok has led social workers and parents in Hong Kong to call for a crackdown on its developer, Bytedance. While the app requires users to be 16 years or older, the SCMP found that many underage children access the platform and expose personal information. Unlike other platforms, it is not easy to delete a user’s account, and posts can only either be “private to only myself” or “public to everyone.” While some have criticized Hong Kong’s privacy commissioner for inaction on the matter, Charles Mok, an information technology sector lawmaker, said a lack of regulation in Hong Kong meant it would take “something really [serious] to happen” before the government became involved.
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