Tag: TikTok
TikTok Finds Itself on the U.S. Judicial Radar; Agrees $92 Mn Payout Over Privacy Lawsuit
TikTok, the China-based social media company, has agreed to pay $92 million to settle multiple privacy lawsuits for violating users’ data privacy. The lawsuits...
TikTok Fixes Critical Vulnerability in its ‘Find Friends’ Feature
Security researchers from Check Point uncovered a critical vulnerability in TikTok’s Find Friends feature, which could have allowed threat actors to pilfer users’ phone...
Social Media Giants’ Data Collection under FTC Scanner; Amazon, Facebook, and Seven others Summoned
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the U.S. has issued orders to nine social media and video streaming giants, asking them to provide data...
Ad Scams Deliver a Bitter Pill to TikTok
The problems for the popular short-video app TikTok don’t seem to subside. After facing a complete ban in India and an impending ban in...
Data Scraped from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Exposes 235 Mn Social Media Profiles
Security researchers discovered a misconfigured database exposing over 235 million social media profiles online. According to the security researcher Bob Diachenko, who leads cybersecurity...
South Korea Penalizes TikTok for Mishandling Child Data
Following in the footsteps of the U.S. and India, South Korea now seems to have tightened its grip around the China-based social media company,...