The Cannes Film Festival has renewed its short film competition partnership with TikTok for a second year in a move that is likely to come under scrutiny amid the global debate over the platform’s privacy and data security record.
Delegate General Thierry Frémaux said in an interview with an industry website on Monday that the festival was “happy” with the partnership and “the human relationship” it had forged with TikTok.
His comments come three days after France joined a growing list of countries banning the downloading of the App on government-issued devices due to security concerns, alongside the U.S., UK, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Canada.
Deadline contacted the festival on whether this development would have bearing on the partnership and also asked whether employees of the festival, which is partly financed by the state, would be covered by the blanket ban.
Read more on deadline.com
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