NEW YORK (Reuters) – TikTok will exit the Hong Kong market in a few days, a spokesman told Reuters on Monday night as other technology companies, including Facebook Inc (FB.O) have suspended the processing of government requests for user data in the region. FILE PHOTO: A TikTok logo is displayed …
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Mike Pompeo’s comments come amid mounting tensions between the United States and China over managing the coronavirus outbreak. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday night that the United States “is certainly considering” banning Chinese social media applications, including TikTok. “I don’t want to go out in front of the …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The social media app TikTok distanced itself from Beijing after India banned 59 Chinese apps in the country, according to correspondence seen by Reuters. FILE PHOTO: File photo of the TikTok logo on a mobile phone screen in this image taken on February 21, 2019. REUTERS …
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India on Monday banned dozens of Chinese apps, including TikTok, raising privacy and security concerns, a move that occurs less than two weeks after a deadly skirmish along the two-nation border. The Ministry of Electronics and Informatics said the 59 applications were “involved in activities that are detrimental to the …
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A new security feature in iOS 14 has surprised TikTok by spying on millions of its users. The popular social media platform was caught red-handed copying text from a user’s clipboard every few seconds, effectively recording their keystrokes without their knowledge. Although this was previously done in secret, beta users …
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