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Congressman Josh Gottheimer (DN.J.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) Have introduced a new law for TikTok and other social media apps.
Legislators explained that the CHATS Act on Social Media Law will change the FBI’s unified crime reporting program to include information about which crimes are tied to which social media platform. ..
According to Gottheimer, the bill is backed by police national brotherhood and has three goals. Protecting children from the dangers of TikTok data sharing. Pressure TikTok, owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance, to track user data, including personal information about children. Also, make other social media platforms such as Snapchat and Instagram accountable for their relationship to criminal activity such as drug trading.
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“It’s really Wild West and our kids are natives of the social media landscape,” said Fentanyl addiction to his son Sammy in 2021 after unknowingly buying a drug mixed with fentanyl on Snapchat. Dr. Laura Berman, who lost in, said.
Fitzgerald described the bill as an “all-hands-on-deck” approach to addressing the privacy and security issues that social media platforms present to both children and adults. Representatives from Pennsylvania and New Jersey also sent a letter to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew detailing the privacy concerns of Americans using short-format video apps.
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Data collected by TikTok “Not only can it be used to detect American travel and financial habits, but it can also generate sensitive information about their relationships, behaviors, preferences and vulnerabilities,” the letter said. “If this data is shared with foreign countries, it represents a significant national security risk and we urge Congress and the government to address it.”
Berman and Samuel Chapman, hosts of The Dr. Laura Berman Show, are directly aware of the dangers social media apps pose to children.
A drug dealer approaches his son Sammy on Snapchat. You can’t track your conversation history because Snapchat can be configured to delete a message after 24 hours or immediately after it’s been sent. Chapman and Berman have proposed to sell pills. What was later discovered was illegally manufactured. A Los Angeles dealer shared a colorful ad with Sammy on Snapchat, showing the types of medicines he was selling.
The father, who lost his son due to fentanyl addiction, calls the Biden administration to take action: “We are slaughtered.”
When Berman and Chapman found their son dead on the floor at home due to fentanyl addiction, police said Snapchat couldn’t help law enforcement to find a dealer who sold Sammy’s medicine. They were shocked when they said to. Since then, they have advocated strengthening parental controls for social media apps and strengthening collaboration between social platforms and law enforcement agencies.
“I believe that if the CHATS bill is passed, it will make lawmakers and police accountable and important to the CEOs of these platforms … [who] “Social media has robbed parental controls,” Chapman added.
Berman thought that during the COVID-19 pandemic, parents like him would be safe to have their children at home, but students would learn from home and spend time away from other day-to-day activities. Although forced, lesser-known apps emphasize that they spend more time on social media, but pose an imminent danger.
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“When they’re under your roof, you know they’re safe. Well, thanks to social media, that’s no longer true,” she explained. “Drug sellers find our kids on social media. They don’t have to seduce them.”
She added that the “major marketing tool” for drug dealers is social media. Therefore, apps like Snapchat and TikTok play a role in other crimes such as drug addiction and trafficking.
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Not only does China control ByteDance, which owns TikTok, but Chinese pharmaceutical companies “send fentanyl to Mexico and drug cartels are reformatting it into counterfeit drugs that look like real drugs.” Mr Berman said.
Both parents want social media executives to be held liable for crimes that occur or initiate on their platforms if the CHATS Act is passed.