Indonesia Suspends TikTok Registration With Over 100 Million Accounts At Risk (reuters.com)
(Friday October 03, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD)
from the missing-data dept.)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/03/231243/indonesia-suspends-tiktok-registration-with-over-100-million-accounts-at-risk
- Source link: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/indonesia-suspends-tiktok-registration-over-data-sharing-failures-ministry-says-2025-10-03/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters:
> Indonesia has suspended TikTok's registration to provide electronic systems after it [1]failed to hand over all data relating to the use of its live stream feature , a government official said on Friday. The suspension could in theory prevent access to TikTok, which has more than 100 million accounts based in Indonesia.
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> Alexander Sabar, an official at Indonesia's communications and digital ministry, said in a statement some accounts with ties to online gambling activities used TikTok's live stream feature during [2]national protests . [...] Sabar said the government had asked the company for its traffic, streaming and monetization data. The company, owned by China's ByteDance, did not provide complete data, citing its internal procedures, Sabar said without giving further detail.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/indonesia-suspends-tiktok-registration-over-data-sharing-failures-ministry-says-2025-10-03/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Indonesian_protests
> Indonesia has suspended TikTok's registration to provide electronic systems after it [1]failed to hand over all data relating to the use of its live stream feature , a government official said on Friday. The suspension could in theory prevent access to TikTok, which has more than 100 million accounts based in Indonesia.
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> Alexander Sabar, an official at Indonesia's communications and digital ministry, said in a statement some accounts with ties to online gambling activities used TikTok's live stream feature during [2]national protests . [...] Sabar said the government had asked the company for its traffic, streaming and monetization data. The company, owned by China's ByteDance, did not provide complete data, citing its internal procedures, Sabar said without giving further detail.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/indonesia-suspends-tiktok-registration-over-data-sharing-failures-ministry-says-2025-10-03/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Indonesian_protests
What "China's ByteDance"? (Score:2)
Didn't the kids of Larry, Rupert and Michael get control of it from Trump? And wasn't it like 60% large US institutional investors anyway?
Re: (Score:2)
If that deal actually happens (will believe it when I see TikTok themselves announce it officially), it's only the U.S. operations they are buying.
So it will be kinda like how TikTok is a completely different and separate app in China itself. TikTok, USA will be not be the same as TikTok, SEA.