Bytedance
Knives Out for TikTok as Journo Reveals her Spy Story
Clock Ticking for U.S. Ban: FT’s Cristina Criddle claims ByteDance spied on her—because she wrote damaging stories about TikTok ...
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TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million
Richi Jennings | | Australia, Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, five eyes, information commissioner's office, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, uk, Won’t somebody think of the children?
$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...
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Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, BreachForums, Bytedance, DarkNavy, Data breaches, google, Latest Warnings, Liu Huafang, PDD Holdings, Pinduoduo, Project Zero, Temu, TikTok, Web Fraud 2.0, weibo
Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published ...
Ban TikTok, say FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, GOP, DNC, POTUS (but not ACLU)
Richi Jennings | | ACLU, Biden administration, Bytedance, CIA, DATA Act, DNI, FBI, FBI Director Christopher Wray, nsa, RESTRICT Act, SB Blogwatch, senate hearing, TikTok, US Senate, White House
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. RESTRICT: The White House and both sides of the Senate agree that TikTok needs to be stopped—or at least RESTRICT’ed. A bipartisan bill seeks to make that happen ...
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‘We Must Ban TikTok!’ — Senate, House, FCC Agree
Richi Jennings | | Brendan Carr, Bytedance, china, chinese government, fcc, Mike Gallagher, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, TikTok
TikTok’s days are numbered in the U.S.—if the GOP has its way ...
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TikTok Ban: Texas is Fourth State to Join; Indiana Sues
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, china, chinese government, government, indiana, maryland, SB Blogwatch, Security theater and political posturing—I hear that tune playing every time I fly in the US, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, TikTok
Four U.S. states have now banned TikTok on government workers’ devices. Plus, Indiana has sued the app’s owner ...
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Naked TikTok Girls = Malware Mayhem #InvisibleFilter
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, china, Invisible Body, LMAOoo that’s what u guys get for being perverts, Malware, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, trojan, WASP Stealer
TikTok’s ‘Invisible Body’ challenge was too great an opportunity for malware scrotes to pass up: “You too can see you favorite TikTok star naked!” ...
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TikTok ‘Will’ Spy on US Citizens — Say Sources
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, CCP, china, China saw how successful Russia was with Facebook, Forbes, GPS, location data, SB Blogwatch, spyware, Tik Tok, TikTok
TikTok parent ByteDance is planning to track the location of certain targeted individuals on U.S. soil, using a specialist Chinese team ...
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TikTok Hack: 2B Records Leak — but ByteDance Denies
Richi Jennings | | Alibaba Cloud, Bytedance, china, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, we'll get to it later—let's just deploy this quickly
TikTok was hacked, with over two billion records stolen. Or so says notorious leak group BlueHornet (a/k/a AgainstTheWest, @AggressiveCurl) ...
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WeChat Banned, TikTok Saved
The past few weeks have seen a flurry of activity surrounding two Chinese apps, TikTok (Bytdance) and WeChat (Tencent) and their ability to continue to have a presence in the United States ...
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