President Joe Biden is on the verge of banning TikTok in the US following the Senate’s approval of a new law that mandates the app’s Chinese owner, Bytedance, to sell
China launches new crackdown on Whatsapp
China has mandated that Apple restrict access to WhatsApp and Threads within the nation as part of a new effort to suppress dissent under the leadership of Xi Jinping.
Beijing’s accusations of ‘bullying behavior’ expose its glaring hypocrisy.
Over the years, foreign ministry spokespersons have made numerous hypocritical statements. Russia’s insistence on seeking peace in Ukraine lacks credibility, while Iran’s denial of involvement in Middle Eastern unrest fails
TikTok Nears Potential Ban in the United States Following Key Vote
The US House has voted in favour of a bill that could lead to a nationwide TikTok ban unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells its stake.
TikTok Encourages Countless Users to Voice Opposition to Proposed U.S. Ban
TikTok is actively rallying millions of American users to oppose a potential U.S. ban on the platform due to national security concerns.
The video app has acknowledged that American TikTok user data is stored in China.
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.