The platform TikTok has announced the opening of two new data centers in Ireland and Norway to strengthen the protection of European users in this area, and will appoint an external partner to monitor and audit data security. This was stated this Wednesday at a briefing by Elaine Fox, Head of Privacy for Europe, and […]
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Is TikTok less secure than other social networks?
The White House, the Government of Canada, the European Commission and the European Parliament are some of the institutions that have vetoed the use of TikTok on the corporate devices of their employees, with security concerns as the main argument. But, is this social network more insecure than others for the user? No, security and […]
Institutions and governments put TikTok in the crosshairs for security
International institutions and governments have put TikTok in their sights due to the security doubts generated by this Chinese application and they recommend or directly ask to remove it from their official devices. Community sources confirmed to EFE today that the European Parliament has decided, like other European Union institutions, to ban the Chinese application […]
The European Parliament also vetoes TikTok for security reasons
The eurochamber has also decided, like other institutions of the European Union (EU), ban Chinese app TikTok on the corporate phones of its workers and MEPs, in addition to recommending that it not be installed on personal devices, community sources confirmed to Efe today. The suspension of this application on smartphones and tablets of the […]
US advances additional measures against TikTok
The pressure against TikTok increased in the United States this Tuesday with the advance in Congress of a bill that could lead to the ban of the popular application, a day after the White House vetoed it from the cell phones of officials. According to a spokesperson for the app, owned by the Chinese company […]
Canada Bans TikTok on Government Mobile Devices
The Canadian government announced Monday that it will ban the TikTok app on mobile devices it provides to its staff starting Tuesday, citing “an unacceptable level of risk” to privacy and security. “On a mobile device, TikTok’s data collection methods provide considerable access to content on the phone”, Treasury Minister Mona Fortier said, adding in […]
US adults will spend more time watching online video than TV by 2023
For the first time, in 2023 adults Americans will spend more time watching video on the internet than on what is known as traditional television, thanks in part to platforms like Youtube, Netflix and TikTokaccording to a study published this Wednesday by Insider Intelligence. “People are spending more and more time watching video on their […]
On TikTok, the war in Ukraine alternates between tragedy, humor and disinformation
The war in Ukraine has become the first of the TikTok era, a social network where the conflict is portrayed both through harrowing videos of artillery strikes, advice on cooking in bomb shelters, and misinformation about the Russian invasion. . Since Russia invaded UkraineMillions of people have tuned in to the hugely popular social networking […]
TikTok: Khaby Lame, from being unemployed to having more followers than Mark Zuckerberg
Khaby Lame was fired from his factory job in early 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and had to return to his parents’ home. What seemed like a dark future marked by unemployment and the health crisis, was actually for this 21-year-old young man an opportunity to position himself as one of the most important […]
Scammers pretend to be famous to take money from their fans on TikTok
With more than 1 billion users and strong growth in recent years, TikTok has become the scene of lucrative scams in which anonymous netizens pose as celebrities and collect thousands of dollars in gifts and donations from their most unsuspecting fans. This is a relatively simple scam to execute: the scammer takes a live video […]