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TikTok accused in California lawsuit of sending user data to China
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A California college student has accused popular video-sharing app TikTok in a class-action lawsuit of transferring private user data to servers in ...
TikTok apologises for temporary removal of video on Muslims in China
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Social media app TikTok apologised to a user on Thursday for removing a video that criticised China’s treatment of Muslims, blaming a “human ...
Esports: Renault harnesses real F1 resources for virtual success
ENSTONE, England (Reuters) – Jarno Opmeer once trained in the Renault team gym as a junior academy driver and now the Dutch racer is back at the factory facility, preparing f...
Exclusive: China’s ByteDance moves to ringfence its TikTok app amid U.S. probe – sources
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok from much of its Chinese operations, amid a U.S. national sec...
Workers at Israeli surveillance firm NSO sue Facebook for blocking private accounts
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A group of employees from Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social media giant had unfairly bl...
U.S. Military examines TikTok security concerns after Schumer’s data warning
The US Army is undertaking a security assessment of China-owned social media platform TikTok after a Democratic lawmaker raised national security concerns over the app’s hand...
Factbox: How social media services handle political ads
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Online platforms including Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google face growing pressure to stop carrying political ads that contain false or misle...
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple offer defence in congressional antitrust probe
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Four top U.S. tech companies, Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon.com and Apple, responded to questions from a congressional commit...
ByteDance CEO urges TikTok diversification as U.S. pressure mounts: internal note
BEIJING (Reuters) – The founder and CEO of TikTok owner ByteDance will focus on adding users of the popular video app in countries outside of its strongest markets, according...
Exclusive: Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators, sources say
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The international police organisation Interpol plans to condemn the spread of strong encryption in a statement Monday saying it protects child sex p...
TikTok owner ByteDance plans to launch music streaming – FT
Reuters – TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd is in talks with big music labels – Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music – for global licensing...
Women leaders driven offline and out of work by social media abuse
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pervasive abuse of women on social media is driving female leaders off the internet and, in some cases, out of a job, a conference heard...
China orders ByteDance’s Toutiao to fix search, saying national hero smeared
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s internet regulator ordered ByteDance news app Jinri Toutiao to clean up its search engine, saying the search function threw up “slande...
Where US presidential candidates stand on breaking up Big Tech
Reuters – In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, America’s big tech companies are being challenged on many fronts from across the political spectrum, from ant...