China’s new deepfake rules went into effect in January, but China-based companies continue to offer deepfake apps for download in the U.S.
“In the same way that we are well behind on the regulation of privacy, I think we’re still very much at the early stages of determining what regulation we should have around deepfakes,” said Samir Jain, the director of policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights and free expression.
Concerns about foreign access to U.S. user data through apps have coalesced in recent years around China and TikTok. Critics of TikTok have argued that it poses a particularly urgent security threat, because China could force it to divulge data about its U.S. users. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told a congressional hearing last month that ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent, was a private company and not controlled by the Chinese government.
“TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, U.S. user data with the Chinese government,” he said in prepared remarks. “Nor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made.” China, which says it would “firmly oppose” any forced sale of TikTok in the U.S., says it takes data privacy and security very seriously and that the U.S. has provided no evidence that TikTok threatens its national security.“The Chinese government has never asked and will never ask any company or individual to collect or provide data, information or intelligence located abroad against local laws,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said last month.
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