The head of video app TikTok has been summoned by European lawmakers from different parliamentary committees for an inquiry into its privacy practices. In a letter sent to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Thursday, the heads of five European Parliament committees requested that Chew appear for an in-person probe. The letter signatories include heads […]
TikTok will pay Irish data privacy regulators 345 million euros to settle allegations it violated the privacy of underage users. The Irish Data Protection Commission determined that TikTok had guided young users into setting up accounts visible by default to the public and allowed child user accounts to be paired with unverified nonchild users. In […]
Cybersecurity researchers from Imperva have uncovered a flaw in the popular social media app TikTok which could have allowed threat actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from victim devices to be used in identity theft attacks, phishing, or for blackmail. The vulnerability, which has since been fixed, was found in the way the app handled incoming […]
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