Australia is scrutinising the popular Chinese-owned social media TikTok platform for any risks it may pose to users from around potential foreign interference and data privacy issues. Owned by Bytedance, TikTok opened an office in Australia in recent weeks. Offices of both the Home Affairs and Attorney-General are discussing TikTok’s operations. Prime Minister Scott Morrison […]
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The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), the country’s telecommunications watchdog, said it has fined the company 186 million won — around $155,000 — for failing to protect users’ private data. The Korea Communications Commission said the Chinese company collected the data of children without consent from their legal guardians. Source: South Korean regulator fines TikTok over […]
Tiktok has said it will be moving ownership of its users’ data in Europe to local subsidiaries, in a boost to its British arm as it prepares for Brexit. The social media app’s US parent Tiktok Inc will no longer manage and safeguard data for users based in the UK and the European Union. Instead, from […]
TikTok has claimed that the Chinese government has never requested for user data, nor would the company turn it over if asked. TikTok has sought to distance itself from Beijing after it was banned in India earlier this week. In a letter to the Indian government dated June 28th, the company’s CEO, Kevin Mayer, said […]
Chinese video app TikTok’s practices are to be examined by an EU task force, the bloc’s privacy watchdog said on Wednesday, which also warned EU police forces against using facial recognition software from U.S. company Clearview AI. The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said it would set up a task force to assess TikTok’s activities […]
The watchdog say they will “examine whether TikTok adequately protects the privacy of Dutch children”. The probe will examine whether TikTok adequately protects the privacy of children under Dutch law and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Authorities are also examining whether the app requires parental consent for TikTok to collect and use data […]
Researchers at CheckPoint have discovered a flaw within TikTok which allows hackers to text users malicious links. Over the past couple of months, CheckPoint researchers identified multiple vulnerabilities within the TikTok application leaving users vulnerable to hackers. Source: #Privacy: Serious security flaws in TikTok identified
The review comes after lawmakers raised concerns about TikTok’s growing influence in the United States. The United States government has opened a national security review of a Chinese company’s acquisition of the American company that became TikTok, the hugely popular short-form video app, according to people briefed on the inquiry. The Committee on Foreign Investment […]
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a proposed class action alleging that the app Musical.ly violated children’s privacy laws by collecting their data and operating the app “in a reckless and unlawful manner for commercial gain.” Complaint against TikTok alleged that Musical.ly—which was acquired by ByteDance 2017 […]