Find a current event, within the last year, that involved a crisis or scandal

Find a current event, within the last year, that involved a crisis or scandal

Week 7 Discussion

Find a current event, within the last year, that involved a crisis or scandal. Give a brief synopsis of the company and the issue, and the company’s to the crisis. Do you feel the company’s approach was effective? Why or why not? What would you have done the same and what would you have done differently?

Respond to at least one of your classmates in order to be eligible for full-credit.

Below is a peer’s discussion post in which I’ll have to provide a response too.

Sheri Clark

RE: Week 7 Discussion

Hello,

I will be focusing on the company TikTok and the recent revelation that user data was tracked using tactics banned by Google. TikTok is possessed by a Beijing-based organization called ByteDance and has fallen in the line of sight of a worldwide innovation fight. It’s not simply happening in the U.S.: A month ago, India restricted TikTok and a few applications from China, refering to security concerns. Individual innovation and international affairs are getting progressively interlaced: The previous summer, there was a comparative protection freakout over the Russian-made FaceApp, a program that takes photographs of individuals and “ages” them utilizing man-made reasoning.

Protection concerns have been the most popular part of the well known short-video informal organization in the previous weeks. On July 7, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. was thinking about restricting TikTok, and cautioned it puts “your private data in the possession of the Chinese Socialist Gathering.” On July 10, the Just National Advisory group forewarned staff members about utilizing it. (The equivalent day, Amazon likewise advised representatives to quit utilizing the TikTok application on work telephones.

The Public Relations sector of TikTok have publicly entertained the idea of the company being sold to Microsoft, which is based in the United States. The company seems to understand that they may be better off ridding themselves of possible lawsuits that could come following the issue of cybersecurity, so rather allowing the app to have a restart. The company may also have publicly acknowledged their willingness to sell to an American based company because of President Donald Trump threatening to ban the app in the US.