French producer Charles Gillibert, right, and French-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven celebrate on stage with their trophy after they won the Best First Feature Film award for "Mustang" Friday, Feb. 26, 2016 at the ceremony of the 41th Cesar Film Awards at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
PARIS (AP) --
France's Culture minister has wished success in Hollywood's Academy Awards to "Mustang," a French-produced Turkish drama that took four awards at a ceremony in Paris.
Audrey Azoulay said Saturday the 41st annual Cesar awards -the country's equivalent of the Oscars'- has honored "the French cinema in all its diversity."
"Mustang," whose director Deniz Gamze Erguven was born in Turkey and raised mainly in France, won four prizes including best first film at the Cesar ceremony Friday night.
The Turkish-language film is competing in Hollywood Sunday amid controversy caused by the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations.
The French film industry has also honored "Fatima," the story of an Algerian immigrant woman struggling to raise her two daughters in France, with three awards including "best film."
A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
The U.K.'s data protection watchdog said Monday that it's investigating how TikTok uses the personal information of teenagers to deliver content recommendations to them when they use the social media platform.
The Information Commissioner's Office said that there are growing concerns around how social media platforms were using data generated by children's online activity to power their recommendation algorithms, and the potential for young people to see inappropriate or harmful content as a result.
The regulator said that it wanted to ensure the robustness of TikTok's safety procedures when it comes to using the personal information of teens ranging in age from 13 to 17.
"It's what they're collecting, it's how they work," information commissioner John Edwards said. "I will expect to find that there will be many benign and positive uses of children's data in their recommender systems."
"What I am concerned about is whether they are sufficiently robust to prevent children being exposed to harm, either from addictive practices on the device or the platform, or from content that they see, or from other unhealthy practices," he said.
As part of the investigation, the regulator will also look into how online forum site Reddit and image-sharing site Imgur use children's personal data and how they estimate or verify a child's age.
TikTok, which is operated by Chinese technology firm ByteDance, said in a statement that it was "deeply committed to ensuring a positive experience for young people on TikTok."
"Our recommender systems are designed and operate under strict and comprehensive measures that protect the privacy and safety of teens, including industry-leading safety features and robust restrictions on the content... Read More
