Tiktok User Data

Ban or no ban, TikTok's partners in the music and advertising world plan to stick with the massively popular short-form video platform until the bitter end, seven industry leaders told Reuters.

Britain's data regulator is gathering information on Snapchat to establish whether the US instant messaging app is doing enough to remove underage users from its platform, two people familiar with the matter said.

TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas is reportedly stepping down after five years with the short-video company owned by China's ByteDance. In an email to staff, Pappas said they would be taking on an advisory role for the company during the transition.

A bipartisan group of six senators and two members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced legislation to protect Americans’ data from being used by US adversaries. The bill is the latest in a series of proposals aimed at addressing concerns about the data of Americans using foreign-owned social media apps like TikTok.

Five TikTok users in Montana who create content posted on the short-video app filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the state's new ban on the Chinese-owned platform.

A former executive at TikTok parent ByteDance who was fired in 2018 said in a lawsuit that the Chinese Communist Party had a special office within the company that gave it “supreme access” to all data. Yintao “Roger” Yu said he was terminated from his job as head of engineering in the US in retaliation for his complaints to supervisors abou...

TikTok, the Chinese-owned short video sharing platform, could face a ban in the US, and creators along with some US Democratic Party lawmakers have opposed the possible ban on the service. The popular app, which has over 150 million users in the country, is facing a potential ban in the US over concerns that user data in the US could be passed on t...

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government amid growing U.S. national security concerns.

TikTok continues to retain information on its users from India who can no longer access the video sharing platform, according to a report. The service was blocked in India in 2020, and currently faces the possibility of a ban in the US, where the app has grown in popularity, over national security concerns.

TikTok's critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China's government by the app and prompted growing calls to ban the app by US lawmakers.

TikTok said on Monday the short-video sharing app now has 150 million monthly active users in the US, up from 100 million it said it had in 2020. The Chinese-owned app confirmed the figure ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony set for Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

TikTok is set to be banned on government phones in the UK on Thursday, according to a PA Media report. Countries around the world have increased scrutiny of TikTok over concerns that the personal data of users could end up in the control of the Chinese government. The UK government is expected to make a statement on the security of its devices on T...

TikTok's Chinese owners must divest their stakes in the wildly popular social media app or face a potential ban in the US, according to the Biden administration. US officials and legislators have raised fears that TikTok's US user data, comprising information of over 100 million users, could be passed on to China's government.

TikTok has unveiled a new "Project Clover" data security regime that will apply to users in the European Union. The firm's announcement comes amid increasing pressure from legislators in the EU and the US over concerns that TikTok shares data with China's government.

TikTok could be used by China's government to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday. The FBI director told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to US security that TikTok was a tool that was "ultimately within the control of the Chinese government" and that it "screams ou...

Ban or no ban, TikTok's partners in the music and advertising world plan to stick with the massively popular short-form video platform until the bitter end, seven industry leaders told Reuters.

Britain's data regulator is gathering information on Snapchat to establish whether the US instant messaging app is doing enough to remove underage users from its platform, two people familiar with the matter said.

TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas is reportedly stepping down after five years with the short-video company owned by China's ByteDance. In an email to staff, Pappas said they would be taking on an advisory role for the company during the transition.

A bipartisan group of six senators and two members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced legislation to protect Americans’ data from being used by US adversaries. The bill is the latest in a series of proposals aimed at addressing concerns about the data of Americans using foreign-owned social media apps like TikTok.

Five TikTok users in Montana who create content posted on the short-video app filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the state's new ban on the Chinese-owned platform.

A former executive at TikTok parent ByteDance who was fired in 2018 said in a lawsuit that the Chinese Communist Party had a special office within the company that gave it “supreme access” to all data. Yintao “Roger” Yu said he was terminated from his job as head of engineering in the US in retaliation for his complaints to supervisors abou...

TikTok, the Chinese-owned short video sharing platform, could face a ban in the US, and creators along with some US Democratic Party lawmakers have opposed the possible ban on the service. The popular app, which has over 150 million users in the country, is facing a potential ban in the US over concerns that user data in the US could be passed on t...

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government amid growing U.S. national security concerns.

TikTok continues to retain information on its users from India who can no longer access the video sharing platform, according to a report. The service was blocked in India in 2020, and currently faces the possibility of a ban in the US, where the app has grown in popularity, over national security concerns.

TikTok's critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China's government by the app and prompted growing calls to ban the app by US lawmakers.

TikTok said on Monday the short-video sharing app now has 150 million monthly active users in the US, up from 100 million it said it had in 2020. The Chinese-owned app confirmed the figure ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony set for Thursday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

TikTok is set to be banned on government phones in the UK on Thursday, according to a PA Media report. Countries around the world have increased scrutiny of TikTok over concerns that the personal data of users could end up in the control of the Chinese government. The UK government is expected to make a statement on the security of its devices on T...

TikTok's Chinese owners must divest their stakes in the wildly popular social media app or face a potential ban in the US, according to the Biden administration. US officials and legislators have raised fears that TikTok's US user data, comprising information of over 100 million users, could be passed on to China's government.

TikTok has unveiled a new "Project Clover" data security regime that will apply to users in the European Union. The firm's announcement comes amid increasing pressure from legislators in the EU and the US over concerns that TikTok shares data with China's government.

TikTok could be used by China's government to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday. The FBI director told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to US security that TikTok was a tool that was "ultimately within the control of the Chinese government" and that it "screams ou...