According to China’s Commerce Ministry, the country’s authorities “strongly oppose” the forced sale of the social network, which is being considered in the United States on the pretext of protecting American customers’...
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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a speech before the US Congress today that the service plans to remove all US user data from its servers by the end of the year. Chu described an initiative by a company called Project Texas to move US user data to...
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew confirmed in a speech to US lawmakers that the company has never shared US user data with Chinese authorities. Reuters with reference to a prepared transcript of his speech. Even if there were such requirements from the...
TikTok short video platform updated community rules. How written down Resource The Verge, the changes include new restrictions on the publication of AI-generated deepfakes, which are becoming increasingly popular in the application. Now the creator...
US TikTok monthly active users reach 150 million Reuters with reference to the explanation of the administration of the platform. For comparison: in 2020 it was 100 million. Image source: antonbe / pixabay.com Shortly before the appearance of TikTok...
The British Broadcasting Corporation, also known as the BBC, with more than 20,000 employees, asked them not to use the TikTok app on company devices unless it was somehow justified for official purposes. In particular, it is still possible to use...
The FBI and the US Department of Justice launched an investigation into the activities of ByteDance, whose employees used its TikTok application to spy on American journalists. Previously, the company itself admitted the fact of surveillance and...
This week, British authorities banned officials from using the social network TikTok on official mobile devices. The move echoes US regulators’ decisions last year, which ordered members of the European Commission to remove the TikTok app from...
It became known that Great Britain for reasons of national security will ban the use of the popular short video service TikTok on smartphones and other government devices. About it writes Bloomberg, citing a statement by UK Cabinet Secretary Oliver...
Agency Bloomberg reported that US officials have asked the Chinese company ByteDance to sell assets related to the activities of the social network TikTok in the United States under threat of a ban on its activities. The country’s authorities...
Discussions about the need to either take control of the social network TikTok or ban it outright in the US have been going on for years, and in the past advocacy groups have devised a plan dubbed Project Texas to meet the demands of the to comply...
Short video service TikTok has launched a $1.5 billion Project Texas program to allay US politicians’ concerns about transferring US users’ personal data to China, but all those efforts may prove to be in vain . This publication reports...
Short-video platform TikTok has unveiled a new program, Project Clover, designed to reassure UK officials that users’ personal data across Europe is well protected. To this end, two data centers are being built in Ireland. Image source:...
Although the use of TikTok in the United States has already been banned on the devices of government employees, local authorities want to go much further and completely ban the use of the country’s most popular social network. Accordingly...
The number of Chinese netizens visiting short video platforms has surpassed one billion. The indicator was reached in December last year and amounted to 95% of the total number of Internet users in China, writes The registry citing a report by the...
Short video service TikTok has announced several innovations aimed at limiting the time it can interact with the platform for its teenage audience. For example, users under the age of 18 can watch TikTok content for up to an hour a day. Image...
The White House has set a 30-day deadline by which the Chinese TikTok app must be removed from devices and systems owned by US federal agencies. The relevant memorandum was signed by Director of the Office of Management and Budget (part of the US...
On Thursday, February 23, the European Commission’s IT service sent emails to all employees of the executive body of the European Union, requesting that the TikTok video service application be removed from their work devices as well as from...
TikTok will allow researchers from nonprofit US universities to access some of the platform’s data. The platform API allows access for scientists and analysts “publicly anonymous” Data such as user profiles, comments, likes and...
TikTok is testing a new mode of monetization for content creators – the Creativity Program. To qualify for the program, users must be over the age of 18, meet and most importantly do certain milestones in terms of subscribers and video views...
