UK follows US by banning TikTok from government devices
Being the obedient little sidekick that it is, the UK government this week took measures to curb the alleged threat posed by TikTok.
Being the obedient little sidekick that it is, the UK government this week took measures to curb the alleged threat posed by TikTok.
Social media app TikTok has launched Project Clover, which seems to be designed to alleviate fears that vast quantities of user data could be accessed by the Chinese state.
A group of politicians in the US have put together a bill that would ban social media app TikTok, over fears its parent company ByteDance could make its data available to the Chinese Communist Party.
Social media app TikTok has joined telecoms industry trade body GSMA, and the firms will ‘work together on initiatives that benefit the entire mobile ecosystem.”
The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account one week after opening it as MPs raised security concerns over China in an urgent letter.
Teenagers in the UK are snubbing traditional news outlets in favour of social media apps, according to Ofcom, while TikTok is the fastest growing news source for adults in the UK. May God have mercy on us all.
Almost three years after the US first expressed fears about Chinese owned social video platform TikTok, there are renewed calls to ban it from the country.
Research from Insider Intelligence predicts social video platform TikTok’s ad revenues will surpass those of Twitter and Snapchat combined this year.
Consumers spent a lot more time on social networking apps last year, with video-sharing app TikTok making major strides, according to new data from App Annie.
Despite the air of optimism swirling around Oracle and TikTok’s new partnership, the video-sharing app’s continued presence in the US is far from assured.
TikTok parent ByteDance is banking on a partnership with Oracle to keep its video-sharing app up and running in the US without having to sell it outright.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has suggested banning the controversial social media app TikTok would violate the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
President Donald Trump has often shown a tenuous grasp of how the economy works, but this is an interesting statement.
After seemingly forcing TikTok owner to divest its business in the US, the Trump administration is prepared to address “a broad array of national security risks” presented by Chinese internet and software companies.
Microsoft has confirmed it is currently in discussions with ByteDance to acquire TikTok operations in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
There are plenty of rumours emerging as the UK attempts to deal with a Huawei-less future, including guidance from the Japanese, TikTok kicking off and diverting attention to the US.
The on-going tension between the US and China is having a material impact on the telecoms industry, though the next stage of the battle plan might be to inhibit the Chinese app economy.
The geopolitical battle for the soul of the internet took another turn with the news that Zoom suspended the account of US-based Chinese activists.
Questions over the privacy of popular video-sharing application TikTok have been raised by Dutch authorities, but scepticism can’t slow the rapid expansion.
The older characters in the room might not get the appeal of small(est) screen entertainment, but the app economy is real and generating some serious revenues today.
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