Chinese internet giants hand algorithm data to government

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For the first time, Chinese internet giants have given information to China's regulators about their software.

The growth of social media platforms depends on the order in which users view it.

Companies watch them closely.

In the US, Meta and Alphabet have been able to argue that they are trade secrets.

The Cyberspace Administration of China has published a list.

It said in a statement that it would regularly update its list of criteria.

There is an e- commerce website owned by the Chinese company.

According to the document, Taobao recommends products or services to users through their digital footprint and historical search data.

China's version of TikTok is said to gauge user interests through what they say, "like" or "dislike"

The data appeared to be at a surface level, according to the head of tech policy research.

She told the radio station that it doesn't look like the Algorithms themselves have been submitted.

The CAC can focus enforcement efforts on a particular program if it has a registration number for that program. What is the next step to see if an algorithm is up to code?

The Competition Law Research Center at the East China University of Political Science and Law believes the information was more detailed than what was published.

Business secrets can't be released to the public.

When contacted on Tuesday, ByteDance declined to speak.

The companies did not respond to the request for comment.

Chinese regulators have been controlling the technology sector for the past two years.

Users can opt out of contributing to recommendations if they so choose.

It had to have public opinion properties or social mobilise capabilities to register.

The registration were made public.

She said that she wasn't aware of any other country in the world where you could see a list of all of the pieces of code.

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