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DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws

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Aug 03, 2024Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Data Protection The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for "flagrantly violating" children's privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok accounts and to view and share … [Read more...] about DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws

TikTok Zero-Click vulnerability: what to know?

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Do you use TikTok? Do your kids? You can put your hands down, I know that the question was more rhetorical than anything. If you’ve any interest in the network, you’ve probably seen the news sweeping the interwebs over the past week – news that’s come to a head in the last 24-48 hours as of this writing. The popular social network TikTok has acknowledged a security issue that’s … [Read more...] about TikTok Zero-Click vulnerability: what to know?

TikTok Faces Massive €345 Million Fine Over Child Data Violations in E.U.

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Sep 16, 2023THNPrivacy / Technology The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) slapped TikTok with a €345 million (about $368 million) fine for violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to its handling of children's data. The investigation, initiated in September 2021, examined how the popular short-form video platform processed … [Read more...] about TikTok Faces Massive €345 Million Fine Over Child Data Violations in E.U.

TikTok Fined $5.4 Million by French Regulator for Violating Cookie Laws

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Jan 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Online Safety Popular short-form video hosting service TikTok has been fined €5 million (about $5.4 million) by the French data protection watchdog for breaking cookie consent rules, making it the latest platform to face similar penalties after Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft since 2020. "Users of 'tiktok[.]com' could not refuse … [Read more...] about TikTok Fined $5.4 Million by French Regulator for Violating Cookie Laws

New TikTok Privacy Policy Confirms Chinese Staff Can Access European Users’ Data

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Popular short-form video-sharing service TikTok is revising its privacy policy for European users to make it explicitly clear that user data can be accessed by some employees from across the world, including China. The ByteDance-owned platform, which currently stores European user data in the U.S. and Singapore, said the revision is part of its ongoing data governance efforts … [Read more...] about New TikTok Privacy Policy Confirms Chinese Staff Can Access European Users’ Data

TikTok Postpones Privacy Policy Update in Europe After Italy Warns of GDPR Breach

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Popular video-sharing platform TikTok on Tuesday agreed to pause a controversial privacy policy update that could have allowed it to serve targeted ads based on users' activity on the social video platform without their permission to do so. The reversal, reported by TechCrunch, comes a day after the Italian data protection authority — the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati … [Read more...] about TikTok Postpones Privacy Policy Update in Europe After Italy Warns of GDPR Breach

TikTok Assures U.S. Lawmakers it’s Working to Safeguard User Data From Chinese Staff

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Following heightened worries that U.S. users' data had been accessed by TikTok engineers in China between September 2021 and January 2022, the company sought to assuage U.S. lawmakers that it's taking steps to "strengthen data security." The admission that some China-based employees can access information from U.S. users came in a letter sent to nine senators, which further … [Read more...] about TikTok Assures U.S. Lawmakers it’s Working to Safeguard User Data From Chinese Staff