Recently, the US Federal Trade Commission in TikTok issued an important ruling, and the international version of Tiktok was fined $5.7 million for violating the US Child Privacy Act.
Initially, the international version of Tik Tok required users to provide information such as e-mail address, telephone number, user name, name, personal data and avatar. The chairman of FTC said that they did not get the consent of their parents before collecting the names, e-mail addresses and other personal information of users below 13, and would not tolerate blatant disregard of the law.
It is reported that in the update released today, all users in Tik Tok need to verify their age, and users under 13 will be guided to a separate and more restricted in-app experience, which can protect their personal information and prevent them from publishing videos to Tik Tok.
743 "Tik Tok" trademarks were registered to prevent infringement.
"Tik Tok" is a sub-brand trademark of Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd. Before Tik Tok was launched, Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd. had registered and laid out its trademark.
According to the trademark website, ByteDance * * * applied for the registration of 743 trademarks with the word "Yao", such as Yao, Miao, Jia, Coin, Yao, Xiang, Yao You, Yao Goods, Yao Dance and Yao Gong.
It is worth mentioning that ByteDance is also willing to use his company name to "create". For example, he recently applied for registration of "Tik Tok Hammer", which made the industry guess whether to buy a hammer. Moreover, ByteDance has applied for the registration of 184 trademarks related to Tik Tok, such as Friends of Tik Tok, Good Things of Tik Tok, Tik Tok Video, Vibrato Code, Tik Tok Lab, Tik Tok Talent, Tik Tok Goddess, and so on.
However, ByteDance has applied for the registration of so many trademarks with the word "Yao", most of which are about the functions of Tik Tok, some of which have been developed and some of which are under development, but Biaomei guesses that they will go further and further on the road of registered trademarks with the word "Yao"!
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