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  • TikTok, Snapchat growing in popularity among UK children, regulator data shows March 29, 2023 06:10 AM IST

    TikTok, Snapchat growing in popularity among UK children, regulator data shows

    Around half of those aged between 3 and 17 use TikTok and Snapchat, figures collected as part of the watchdog's annual survey of children's and parents' online attitudes showed.

  • China says US presumption of guilt against TikTok is baseless March 27, 2023 01:22 PM IST

    China says US presumption of guilt against TikTok is baseless

    "U.S. should respect fair competition, and stop suppressing foreign companies," Mao said, while answering a question about U.S. lawmakers pushing forward with the bill, which is designed to address national security worries relating to the popular video app.

  • US House speaker Kevin McCarthy says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok bill March 27, 2023 07:18 AM IST

    US House speaker Kevin McCarthy says lawmakers to move forward with TikTok bill

    In the United States, there are growing calls to ban TikTok, owned by China-based company ByteDance, or to pass bipartisan legislation to give President Joe Biden's administration legal authority to seek a ban. Devices owned by the U.S. government were recently banned from having the app installed.

  • TikTok CEO was an intern for rival Facebook: 'Working for a startup...' March 26, 2023 12:00 PM IST

    TikTok CEO was an intern for rival Facebook: 'Working for a startup...'

    Shou Zi Chew took over the CEO of TikTok in 2021 and oversaw its meteoric rise. In that year, the short video sharing app clocked 1 billion monthly users.

  • France bans TikTok, Twitter from government staff phones March 25, 2023 05:43 PM IST

    France bans TikTok, Twitter from government staff phones

    The move follows similar restrictions on TikTok in democratic countries amid fears about the popular video-sharing app’s Chinese connections.

  • British parliament blocks TikTok over security concerns March 24, 2023 06:57 AM IST

    British parliament blocks TikTok over security concerns

    "Following the government's decision to ban TikTok from government devices, the commissions of both the House of Commons and Lords have decided that TikTok will be blocked from all parliamentary devices and the wider parliamentary network," a parliament spokesperson said.

  • Why a broad US TikTok ban is unlikely to take effect soon March 24, 2023 06:29 AM IST

    Why a broad US TikTok ban is unlikely to take effect soon

    Adding to the perception, last week the company said the Biden administration had demanded TikTok's owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible ban.

  • Potential TikTok ban sends advertisers scrambling March 23, 2023 04:00 PM IST

    Potential TikTok ban sends advertisers scrambling

    When TikTok's Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress for the first time on Thursday, advertisers will be closely watching his appearance for news as well as the reaction of lawmakers, several ad agencies told Reuters.

  • TikTok would be tough to ban in the US without a new law, experts say March 23, 2023 12:38 PM IST

    TikTok would be tough to ban in the US without a new law, experts say

    Pressure is mounting from lawmakers and national security hawks to ban TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, over fears the app could censure content, influence users, and pass Americans' personal data to Beijing, allegations the company denies.

  • TikTok creators, some US Democratic lawmakers oppose ban on app March 23, 2023 06:53 AM IST

    TikTok creators, some US Democratic lawmakers oppose ban on app

    On Thursday TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee amid growing calls for a ban over national security concerns at a time when relations between Beijing and Washington have deteriorated.

  • Woman ends up being interviewed for job by man she ghosted 6 years ago March 22, 2023 05:36 PM IST

    Woman ends up being interviewed for job by man she ghosted 6 years ago

    Rylie Jouett from Texas shared a now-viral TikTok video about the awkward moment she realised her interviewer was the same man with whom she had cut off all contact six years ago.

  • With few good tools, Biden needs new law to ban TikTok, experts say March 22, 2023 04:39 PM IST

    With few good tools, Biden needs new law to ban TikTok, experts say

    Pressure is mounting from lawmakers and national security hawks to ban TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, over fears the app could censure content, influence users, and pass Americans' personal data to Beijing, allegations the company denies.

  • App has never shared US data with Chinese government: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew March 22, 2023 08:36 AM IST

    App has never shared US data with Chinese government: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew

    "TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, U.S. user data with the Chinese government. Nor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made," Chew will testify on Thursday, according to written testimony posted on Tuesday by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee.

  • TikTok hits 150 million US monthly users, up from 100 million in 2020 March 21, 2023 06:40 AM IST

    TikTok hits 150 million US monthly users, up from 100 million in 2020

    The Chinese-owned app confirmed the figure ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony set for Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

  • TikTok bans: What the evidence says about security and privacy concerns March 19, 2023 09:24 PM IST

    TikTok bans: What the evidence says about security and privacy concerns

    Building a profile from user data to enable targeted phishing attacks on sensitive government accounts is plausible, however, there is no evidence that social media applications like TikTok has been used for this purpose.

  • Why did the UK & USA ban TikTok on government devices? | Is the Chinese app collecting sensitive data? March 17, 2023 06:07 PM IST

    Why did the UK & USA ban TikTok on government devices? | Is the Chinese app collecting sensitive data?

    The UK is the latest addition to the list of countries that have banned TikTok in government offices. So far, the USA, European Union, and New Zealand have banned the popular Chinese app on official government devices due to privacy concerns. India was among the first nation to ban the app completely, citing concerns related to privacy & national sovereignty. Watch this video to find out why countries in the west have now started banning the app.

  • UK bans TikTok on government phones over security concerns March 17, 2023 08:41 AM IST

    UK bans TikTok on government phones over security concerns

    "The security of sensitive government information must come first, so today we are banning this app on government devices. The use of other data-extracting apps will be kept under review," Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden said in a statement.

  • New Zealand to ban TikTok on devices linked to parliament, cites security concerns March 17, 2023 08:28 AM IST

    New Zealand to ban TikTok on devices linked to parliament, cites security concerns

    Concerns have mounted globally about the potential for the Chinese government to access users' location and contact data through ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company.

  • UK bans TikTok on government devices over security concerns March 16, 2023 07:07 PM IST

    UK bans TikTok on government devices over security concerns

    The ban brings the UK in line with the US, Canada and the European Union (EU) and also India which banned TikTok entirely from the country, even as the company strongly denies sharing user data with the Chinese government.

  • TikTok dismisses calls for Chinese owners to divest in US March 16, 2023 08:35 AM IST

    TikTok dismisses calls for Chinese owners to divest in US

    The company was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that said the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., part of the Treasury Department, was threatening a U.S. ban on the app unless its owners, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., divested.

  • UAE spy chief’s firm buys into ByteDance at $220 billion value March 15, 2023 09:46 AM IST

    UAE spy chief’s firm buys into ByteDance at $220 billion value

    G42, controlled by United Arab Emirates royal Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, acquired a $100 million-plus stake from existing investors in recent months through its 42XFund, people with knowledge of the deal said.

  • TikTok considers splitting from ByteDance if deal with US fails March 15, 2023 06:56 AM IST

    TikTok considers splitting from ByteDance if deal with US fails

    A divestiture, which could result in a sale or initial public offering, is considered a last resort, to be pursued only if the company’s existing proposal with national security officials doesn’t get approved, according to people familiar with the matter. Even then, the Chinese government would have to agree to such a transaction, the people said.

  • 'Time traveller' from the year 2671 has 6 bizarre predictions for 2023 March 13, 2023 05:39 PM IST

    'Time traveller' from the year 2671 has 6 bizarre predictions for 2023

    Eno Alaric posted his so called "predictions" in a TikTok which has received more than 26,000 views.

  • Health start-up Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Google, Meta and TikTok March 13, 2023 03:24 PM IST

    Health start-up Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Google, Meta and TikTok

    The information shared included names, phone numbers, insurance information, treatment details and more

  • Spotify overhauls Android, iOS interface for better engagement March 09, 2023 03:40 PM IST

    Spotify overhauls Android, iOS interface for better engagement

    Spotify says the new TikTok-like interface is built for "Deeper Discovery and Connection(s)"