Another Side of Midnight With Lionel - Lynn’s Warriors: Has Anything Really Changed with Tik-Tok and Child Safety?

0:00what exactly is that are the help us with this that the data that are collected what information regarding a child for those people who were who are un informed what what data regarding a child is so critical what are they gathering what are they collating in keeping and filing well now i'll say with a i artificial intelligence scraping for everything but imagine getting a child information birth date everything about them that information information is called information is money so there are again scraping the internet for a i but also we know that now we know that a few years ago but also what we don't know that's was part of that national security threat with china what are they doing with allegedly with all of this information on our kids that they'll have a child's the rest of their lives kind of thing don't really know i'm saying now with a i they're using that to empower

1:01okay all all the information that they're scraping from everywhere but it's very curious you know if you have a ten-year-old child okay you might have their birthday might have where they live you might have where they go to school you might have their social security number but what are you really doing with that information and nobody's asking these questions and i think these questions demand answers and our government is not doing it they're just doing settlements now this is the second one i mentioned metta couple weeks ago now we have picked up and on our merry way why you want to do it with the information army what do you think they're doing with well i was in this is this is part of the single metadata and they want everything for example looks biometrics age name likes dislikes everything that they can put together into this massive cauldron this gumbo pot of behavior likes dislikes everything you can possibly imagine

2:04that we can learn or call you know from from kids and then later on as it becomes part they might be able to pull that out to find trends of what children like what they don't like and it's it's dead same goes with you your phone they want to know about you and where you go and where you stand with geofencing they want to know where you what you spend how much time do you they they just want to build in essence kind of a personality profile but let me explain first of all we're talking to lynch off from lens warriors dot org we're talking to season at the lens warriors on youtube and lens underscore warriors on x one of the biggest can i guess criticism you've had is that you've always asked where is the transparency seems like these these organizations these big tech companies they want more transparency wait a minute what what do they mean and what do you mean by transparency what are we

3:05actually looking for and is that even possible what i think transparency uh... i mean the accountability the substance of accountability not simply a glossy press release announcing okay you know on the bottom of a page somewhere you know buried on the internet okay we we have a settlement of four hundred million dollars we want to know okay what what practices were found to actually buy this children's online privacy protect that what how many children are affected we know millions of kids on a daily basis are on tiktok what data was exactly collected and and what are they doing with it with how long do they retain it keep it forever what what underage accounts are identified um... our parents notify about anything what about if parents as tiktok to delete requests or but we know nothing there's no there's no independent oversight existing with

4:06any of these big tech companies now look um... the d.o.j. says that tiktok has made significant changes to its ownership management and privacy practices i've put i could have written that one that's that's played with big tech they all say we do we do them best we can a child safety we're doing everything in our power but i ask you we have something called children's online privacy protection acting in the United States it's nineteen ninety eight they know and we violated this okay so i'm asking you know history shows us they lie you know big tech why should we believe that and here's the good news though the american public is becoming sassy to all this they're becoming tired of all this they are pushing back parents are questioning more we're talking about it more that's that's the good point i want media you know uh... to talk about it i want everybody to press on give us more information about all this we don't want to take a company's word anymore to use big tech companies i'm going to take

5:06their work for it because it's the same thing they have no accountability no through transparency so we're not going to believe them so we know our children continuing to get you know be harmed on these sites what this is a breaking point now line what what do we have to do you know that i deal with parents every single day yes i have a parents whose children are no longer with us other parents i spend a lot of my time with all of that i am barris i'm going to tell you this this country is letting down in my opinion right now a lot of good people doing a lot of good work but right now they're holding up a lot of child safety these other people in the government and i mean i feel bad and horrible for our parents who have worked so hard who travel to their state capitals who travel to washington who use their own money most of the time just they want to get the word out they want to relay the stories of what happened to them they

6:07don't want it to happen to other parents and kids and we can't get actually look at kids on on safety act i've been working on that for going on five years by partison all the work we do is by partison doesn't belong to any political party what's the problem well you know what the problem is let's be real here the problem is big tech has the checkbook big tech has the power that's what everybody likes and that's your only everything up