TikTok

Hyundai has decided to quickly end a class action lawsuit arising out of in connection with the mass theft of cars through the TikTok challenge. The auto giant agreed to a settlement amounting to approximately $200 million to compensate approximately 9 million to Hyundai and Kia owners in the United ... Read more

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed a bill SB 419, which effectively bans the social network TikTok in the state. This is the first such ban in the United States. The new law requires app stores to remove TikTok from their offerings for Montana residents, reports The Verge. Governor Gianforte justified ... Read more

Smartphone apps developed by Chinese companies are proliferating around the world despite a growing trend for governments to view them as a potential security threat. This is reported by Nikkei Asia. To confirm this, the American research company Sensor Tower analyzed the five most popular downloads in 95 countries and ... Read more

Heart on My Sleeve, a track written with artificial intelligence (AI), has raised creative and legal issues in the music industry, writes The Verge. The song simulates the vocal parts of Drake and The Weeknd. In a matter of days, it became popular on TikTok, Spotify, YouTube and other services, ... Read more

Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science, and Technology Mykhailo Fedorov gave an interview to Liga.net, in which he answered questions about the restriction of the use of TikTok in Ukraine and the sending of subpoenas through messengers. Against the background of the fact that in many countries ... Read more

Since March 24, a petition on the ban of TikTok was banned in Ukraine. At the time of publication of the news, it had already managed to collect more than 5.7 thousand votes out of the 25 thousand needed within 90 days to be considered by the President. The very ... Read more

At hearing in the House of Representatives on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced a barrage of questions about whether the data of American users could be vulnerable to surveillance by China. Referring to Forbes message, later confirmed by the company itself, Florida Rep. Neal Dunn asked Chew whether ... Read more

Tensions surrounding TikTok will come to a head on Thursday, March 23, when the company’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It will give Democrats and Republicans a rare chance to voice their suspicions directly about TikTok, reports New York Times. On Tuesday, Mr. ... Read more

Despite the fact that in the world TikTok ban for government workers gains momentum over security concerns and the app’s Chinese owners, another popular app from ByteDance has so far managed to avoid similar attention. CapCut, a video editing tool that helps people quickly create online videos and memes, has ... Read more

The US is not the only country concerned that TikTok originated in China. Fears about the app, which is owned by ByteDance, quickly spread around the world. In just a few months, more than 5 countries have implemented full or partial bans on TikTok on government devices, pushing the popular ... Read more

The Biden administration is demanding that the Chinese owners of TikTok sell their shares in the social network. Otherwise, they could face banning it in the US, reports the WSJ, citing its own sources. TikTok executives said that 60% of ByteDance (the company that owns TikTok) is owned by international ... Read more

Social networks offer various types of content monetization, one of which is a paywall, which TikTok announced on its platform. The company reported this in a separate post. And the project was called TikTok Series, which resembles the Patreon model. In TikTok, the paywall will allow creators to create exclusive ... Read more

The White House has given government agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from federal devices and systems. To protect data, all federal agencies must remove TikTok from phones and systems and block the company’s Internet traffic, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young said in a memo that Reuters ... Read more

Citing data protection considerations, the EU executive’s IT service has asked all Commission staff to remove TikTok from their corporate devices, as well as personal devices that use corporate apps. The request to remove the Chinese social network app was sent by email to EU officials on the morning of ... Read more

TikTok and Instagram are competitors in the social media market, but they are not only services for viewing short videos. They offer much more features and are constantly adding new ones. However, the strategy of the platforms is sometimes slightly different. TikTok has reportedly launched a new shopping feature in ... Read more

Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia have been forced to release software updates for some of their models after a viral TikTok challenge taught users how to hack their cars. So far, however, the update is only available for about one million cars out of the four million total that need ... Read more

TikTok creators will soon be able to charge fans $1 or more to view their videos, reports Insider, citing its own sources. Paid subscription is one of the many features that TikTok can introduce to attract new users. In addition, TikTok is working on Creator Fund 2.0, which will pay ... Read more

For another year in a row, TikTok was the most used app by children and teenagers during the day, even more than YouTube. According to app usage research children and teens worldwide in 2022, younger audiences (ages 4 to 18) started watching more TikTok than YouTube on average, and TikTok’s ... Read more

TikTok is trying to make it easier for creators and other users to navigate its rules and understand what is happening with their accounts. The company is implementing updated “account control system” – a series of changes that includes a new strike system, as well as features that allow authors ... Read more

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, admitted this week that several of its employees improperly accessed the data of American TikTok users and two journalists. TikTok CEO Shou Chew acknowledged this in a memo published by the Bloomberg agency. The disclosure followed a months-long internal investigation at the company, which ... Read more

A proposal to ban US federal employees from using the Chinese short-video app TikTok on government devices could become law, reports Reuters. That risks damaging the company’s reputation and scaring off advertisers, even if it won’t affect many users, experts say. US lawmakers included the proposal in a key spending ... Read more

TikTok, the short vertical video service that has grown wildly popular in recent years, has begun testing horizontal full-screen videos among select users around the world, reports TechCrunch. Users with access to the test feature will see a new “full screen mode” button on square or rectangular videos in their ... Read more

The president of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has confirmed that there are several ongoing investigations into TikTok. The inspections concern the transfer of EU citizens’ data to China and targeted advertising aimed at minors. Investigators are trying to make sure TikTok complies with the ... Read more

At a House committee hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray said China has stolen more American data “than every other nation combined”, according to The Hill. “China’s vast hacking program is the world’s largest, and they have stolen more Americans’ personal and business data than every other nation combined,” said Christopher ... Read more

TikTok is clarifying to its European users that their data may be accessible to employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about Chinese access to user information on the platform, reports The Guardian. Countries, where TikTok employees may have access to European user data, include ... Read more