TikTok - News & Updates

[Bapun]

TikTok's ad revenue to surpass Twitter and Snapchat combined in 2022 - report

Video-sharing app TikTok's advertisement revenue is likely to triple in 2022 to more than $11 billion, exceeding the combined sales of its rivals Twitter Inc and Snap Inc , according to research firm Insider Intelligence.

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[iDJ]

Let's hope TikTok gets soon banned in US too.

Chinese staff can access TikTok’s US data: Report - Times of India

US News: Although TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance denies sharing user data with the Chinese government, leaked audio from more than 80 internal meetings of T

m.timesofindia.com

 

[Bapun]

TikTok is not just another video app.That’s the sheep’s clothing.It harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing.I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practices.

FCC urges Google, Apple to remove TikTok app over national security concerns

The last time TikTok faced scrutiny was in 2019.

www.androidcentral.com

 

[Sai Jai]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1555229576183283712

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[iDJ]

American needs to flood TikTok with videos of Tianmen Square massacre and Nelsi Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Make it unbearable to do business in US. Instead of posting random crap.

 

[iDJ]

FCC urges Google, Apple to remove TikTok app over national security concerns

The last time TikTok faced scrutiny was in 2019.

www.androidcentral.com

FCC can only give long lectures. But won't do anything about it.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/02/tech/fcc-commissioner-tiktok-ban/index.html

They are slowly letting next generation of Americans exposed to pro Sino communist propaganda with selective censorship on TikTok.

 

[iDJ]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1587905349339779079

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[iDJ]

Canada bans TikTok on government devices.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1630455257884160000

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[Bapun]

The UK government has made the same move as the U.S. by banning TikTok on ministers and civil servants’ phones.

TikTok Banned On UK Government Phones

The UK government has made the same move as the U.S. by banning TikTok on ministers and civil servants’ phones. Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden delivered a statement in the Houses of Pa…

deadline.com

 

[Shiv Verma]

The Australian government said on Tuesday it would remove TikTok from all federal government-owned devices, following many other countries in the West in barring the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns.

Australia bans TikTok from federal government devices

With Australia’s ban, all members of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which consists of Australia, Canada, the United States, Britain and New Zealand — have banned TikTok from government devices

www.thehindu.com