The Digital Iron Curtain: How the RESTRICT Act Threatens to Devastate Privacy and Crush Free Speech Online
By Matt Agorist In an era where the world has become more Orwellian than Orwell himself could have ever imagined, it should come as no…
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First Attorney General Files Lawsuits Against TikTok
By B.N. Frank Last month U.S. agencies and legislators really started beefing up their efforts against Chinese software and technology (see 1, 2). Earlier this…
Allegedly 7 Kids Have Now Died from TikTok Challenge
By B.N. Frank This month has not been good for TikTok. A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner asked Google and Apple to stop offering the…
Lawsuits Filed After Young Girls Died During TikTok “Blackout Challenge”
By B.N. Frank Last week was not a good week for TikTok. A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner asked Google and Apple to stop offering…
FCC Commissioner Asks Google, Apple to Remove TikTok App; Its Data Harvesting “poses an unacceptable national security risk”
By B.N. Frank This isn’t the first time the popular and controversial TikTok app is making headlines. In 2021, researchers started studying TikTok videos to…
TikTok Goes For A Biometric Grab Of 66 Million US Users
By Tyler Durden TikTok quietly rolled out its new US privacy policy earlier this week, allowing the Chinese company to automatically “collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from…
TikTok Secretly Gathered Android Users’ Device Addresses for Over a Year
By B.N. Frank U.S. cybersecurity risks do include A LOT more than TikTok. Nevertheless, some TikTok users now have plenty to worry about too. From…
Apple Privacy Update Shows TikTok Is Harvesting Sensitive Data From Millions Of Users
By John Vibes The social media platform TikTok has quickly become one of the most popular apps in the world over the past two years,…