In an unexpected revelation, TikTok has conceded that some data belonging to its US users is housed in China, despite previous implications that all data was contained within US-based servers.
Twitter faces lawsuit worth hundreds of millions related to music copyright infringements.
Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) is facing a lawsuit amounting to $250 million from seventeen music publishers. The accusers assert that Twitter has facilitated thousands of copyright infringements of songs on
TikTok served as a ‘dissemination apparatus’ for the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda.
A former executive alleges that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in China, had a group of Communist Party members in place to propagate core Communist principles, adding to the growing concerns
Montana is poised to be the initial state in the US to prohibit the downloading of TikTok.
On Friday, lawmakers in Montana passed a bill that would prohibit its residents from downloading the TikTok app, making Montana the first US state to impose such a ban.
All parliamentary devices have been banned from using TikTok.
Parliament has declared that TikTok will be blocked from “all parliamentary devices and the wider parliamentary network” due to cyber security concerns.
TikTok parent ByteDance has admitted that staff tracked two journalists’ locations.
Employees at TikTok’s parent company ByteDance were fired for improperly accessing data from two journalists’ accounts. This raises concerns about how user information is managed.
St Brides Partners Weekly Brief, Friday 7th August 2020
This week brings another scorcher of a weekend in the UK with highs of 38 degrees as August makes its debut.